- From: Murray Altheim <murray@spyglass.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 23:14:42 -0400
- To: cbullard@hiwaay.net
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
>David Durand wrote:
>
>> Even though "referents" sounds exactly like "reference"?
>>
>> Jon
>
>> a very good point. I was thinking that pointer referent is clear, but
>> the plural is confusing. Maybe target is better after all. Link-end
>> works for me, but I don't think of ropes, since links are now part of
>> my primary ontology.
>>
>> Just so long as it's not anchor!
>
>Target.
May I point out that one of the problems I've commonly seen in HTML is that
people have a tough time understanding that HTML anchors may contain both a
NAME and an HREF, so they may be both a referent/link and a
reference/target. Assuming that XML links will be at least as functional,
calling one end of a pointy thing a target may be a limiting statement, or
require some kind of qualifier.
Out of town for three days and boy you guys have been busy...
Murray
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