- From: James K. Tauber <jtauber@jtauber.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 08:40:02 +0800
- To: "'Steven J. DeRose'" <sjd@eps.inso.com>, "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, "w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org" <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
> > I'd be be happy to see CHILD(N) refer to the Nth "proper" element. It is > > intuitive enough and psuedo-element linking can always be achieved as a type > > of sub-element linking instead. > > I presume you mean, element as opposed to subelement. Yep, sorry. The confusion is magnified by the fact 'sub-element' seems to be used in this thread to mean part of an element's content (ie possibly character data). > But still, how do we refer to content that isn't a whole subelement? That's > a major subtraction of functionality. Yes, I agree. But it is separate from the question of what CHILD(N) means. I'd like to see CHILD(N) mean the Nth child *element* and, in addition, would like some means of addressing character data. For example, it makes it impossible for external links to refer to anything that the original author didn't tag: like, pointing to a word or phrase and describing it as a typo, an allusion, a desired link origin, a noun, or whatever. Bad thing to leave out of a language, IMHO. That was the very point I made in response to Tim's Link-6 post. James -- James K. Tauber / jtauber@jtauber.com Perth, Western Australia
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