- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:29:15 -0500
- To: pflynn@curia.ucc.ie
- CC: marc@ckm.ucsf.edu, www-html@w3.org, html-wg@w3.org
From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie> | | In a document mythesis.html: | <a href="alpha_authors.html" rel="bibliography"> | <a href="dept_index.html" rev="theses"> | | In other words, REL is an "I made/own this object" and REV is a "this | object made/owns me". --- I don't think "made/own" describes the most usual cases. I'd suggest reading them as REL="it is my x" and REV="I am its x", where "it" should be replaced with the URL of the target and x should be replaced by the text of the rel or rev. So, <a href="alpha_authors.html" rel="bibliography"> would be read "alpha_authors.html is my bibliography". Another way to look at it is that the anchor (or link) expresses a relationship between two resources and the REL or REV describes which side of the relationship plays the named role. REL says the target plays the named role; REV says the source (the resource containing the anchor or link) plays the named role. This is an arbitrary rule - you just have to learn it. The authors of HTML could have chosen the opposite reading just as easily. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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