Addressing spans

• From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
• Date: Mon, 10 Mar 97 10:20:20 GMT
• To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <1954.199703101020@grogan.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

As I read the draft, there's no way for a locator to address a span of
elements, despite a number of statements to the effect that resouces
need not be points.  Have I missed something, or is there a gap here?
I think spans are absolutely crucial for stand-off annotation,
e.g. what I write now in our local normalised SGML as

<sentence from='(ID) w37' to='(ID) w52'></sentence>

with an inclusion semantics, so this is processed as

<sentence>
 <word id=w37>Now</word>
 <word id=w38>is</word>
 . . .
 <word id=w52>country</word>
</sentence>

ht

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