- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 07:39:34 -0500
- To: Mirsad Todorovac <tm@rasips1.rasip.etf.hr>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, tm@rasips1.rasip.etf.hr (Mirsad Todorovac)
#1. I think that your introduction unnecessarily complicates the issue. At 09:28 PM 11/27/95 +0100, Mirsad Todorovac wrote: >There is a rapidly growing number of documents which are generated >automatically, by programs. Although, many documents get generated by >online CGI scripts. Often there is a need to reference particular part >of a large document, which is created by a program we don't want to change, >or we don't own it. All of the stuff above seems to me to be a special case of the section below: >There are documents which we do not own, and we want to >reference certain parts of them, but they do not have <a name> tags where we >would like them to be, and there is nothing we can do about it. This could be described as: "There are documents which we do not own, cannot change or that are generated by software that we do not own or cannot change." #2. There has been a _lot_ of work done on inter-document addressing in TEI[1] and HyTime[2] and I would encourage you to investigate them before you make your report. They are probably too complex for what you want, but they can at least provide a basis for a syntax, and for extensibility into more advanced addressing. Consider, for example, the case where you are linking to something _other than_ an HTML (or even SGML) document. Paul Prescod [1]http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/p3/doc/p3sa.doc [2]ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML/HyTime/HyQ-1.1.Kimber
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