Re: RFD: Adding alias names to links and resources in HTML documents

On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Rob wrote:

> 
> A lot of suggestions regarding <link>, <resource> etc. Read on:
> 
> A useful feature to add to Cougar would be the use of logical names 
> (aliases) for resources using the <link> tag.  Links in documents 
> would refer to the logical name of the resource, with that name being 
> defined (in a shared file) with the actual URL.

Isn't this part of the idea behind URNs (Universal Resource Names)? I
think this could be achieved better if you used URNs, but specified (via a
LINK element in the HEAD of the HTML document) the specific URN database
or server to use - assuming that is that I've got the ideas right here.

James

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Received on Thursday, 24 April 1997 19:02:08 UTC