- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:38:00 -0500
- To: "Barclay, Daniel" <daniel@fgm.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Thank you, Daniel. Heads up to other TAG members: I consider the attached suggestions to be good ones, and editorial in scope. I therefore plan to incorporate either the suggested changes or something similar when SDW is published in a few days. If you disagree or feel that this requires further review, please let me know ASAP. Thank you. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 -------------------------------------- "Barclay, Daniel" <daniel@fgm.com> Sent by: www-tag-request@w3.org 01/30/2009 01:32 PM To: <www-tag@w3.org> cc: (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM) Subject: editorial: unclear use/misuse of "link" (vs. "link to") Regarding the document "The Self-Describing Web" at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-12-03 : A few sentences are a bit confusing because they use just the verb "link" when they should use "link to." Section 4.2.1 says: ... the ATOM entry that links it. That occurrences of "links it" should be "links to it" (otherwise the reader is left wondering, "'the entry that links it' ... to what?"). Section 1 says: Machine-processable specifications for interpreting new formats should be provided on the Web, and linked from representations that use ... That "linked from" should (probably) be "linked to from" (or some construction with "to which" if you want). Section 4.2.1 also says: ... relationship between the linked resource and ... That "the linked resource" should _probably_ be "the linked-to resource" (or, again, some construction with "to which"). There are several other uses of "link" that should be edited. (The majority of uses of "link" and "link to" seem to be correct.) (When "link" is used transitively, the object of the verb is the things are are linked together (not something that the _subject_ of the verb links to (or "not something to which the subject of the verb links") ).) Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]
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