Re: Link-6: Addressing at the sub-element level

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> Von: 	Tim Bray[SMTP:tbray@textuality.com]
> Gesendet: 	Sonntag, 18. Mai 1997 20:38
> An: 	w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> Betreff: 	Link-6: Addressing at the sub-element level
> 
> A lot of people want to support addressing by char count, token
> count, or regexp, within #PCDATA (or [danger, Will Robinson!] mixed)
> content.
> 
> This is obviously a good idea for many applications.  It is also 
> somewhat more difficult than you'd expect in the context of 
> wide Unicode characters.  Opinions are solicited as to whether
> this should be done for V1.0, and if so, which ones should be done,
> and if so, what to do about the internationalization issues.
> 
This item reaches "unstructured land" which makes it hard to use.
Therefore, it could be wise to leave it out from V 1.0 with respect to
the time frame.

Danger comes from mixed contents, as well as from entities. 

*	Mixed contents cannot be ignored for practical reasons (Why
shall the adressing of a ressource be changed if it is surrounded to
achieve another rendering.

	BTW: I played with lark a little bit, and saw, that in WF
documents anything is potentially mixed content (at least whitspace is
passed to the application)

*	Entities my be one special character, text phrases or even
subtrees. How to deal with those, especially in mixed contents.

If it is to include in V1.0 I would suggest only to implement character
(not byte) count and word count which works on the textual contents of
an entire subtree.

Regards/Mit freundlichen Gruessen
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