- From: Lou Burnard <lou@vax.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:13:34 +0000
- To: W3C-SGML-WG@w3.org
From: OXVAXD::LOU "Lou Burnard" 10-MAR-1997 15:10:43.51 To: MX%"Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk" CC: LOU Subj: Re: 4.5 TEI Extended Pointer Locators? While I don't share Peter's desire to include all the TEI location mechanisms in the XML spec (as already indicated, I think I would add only TOKEN and possibly PATTERN to the grove-based ones already proposed), I would like the ERB to reconsider its decision to disallow the spanning mechanism defined by echte TEI x-pointers. It seems to me that the ability to point/link/target not just "that blort" or "blort number 3" but also "everything from blort no 3 to blort number 12" is an extremely useful and intuitively simple requirement. The whole point of using extended pointers is to cater for the unexpected, unmarked up, and not necessarily hierarchically well-formed in a document, which this very simple mechanism gives you, at no extra cost, as well as the ability to point to entirely natural concepts like "the first six paragraphs of this book", "chapters 12 to 14", etc. I don't believe that it adds much to complexity of implementation -- you only have to be able to proceed sequentially through a document from one location to another -- and it certainly doesn't add much to the complexity of understanding. So how about it ERB? (I would however strongly support any proposal for a less confusing pair of attribute names than FROM and TO, if only I could think of them) Lou
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