RE: [xml-dev] (In)Validate My Assumptions on Linking.

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You can mine it and cite it.
Also, check with Eliot because he owned the baby last time I checked and may
have made updates.   It may be that it can be updated to reflect current
discourse.

Yes, certainly determine what it is you want to do.  Keep in mind that
linking has two viewpoints of consumer and producer like any other bit of
data where a link is and only is data, not the rendering of a control for
producing or consuming a link.  It is most important not to get hung up in
rendering simply as a display but to know precisely what is displayed.  In
very many cases, a web link is a GUI control and that gets conflated in
style sheet productions.

len 


From: peter murray-rust [mailto:pm286@cam.ac.uk] 

There is no doubt that a full treatment of linking is deep and 
complex. I expect to find that HyTime solved most of it. I sat for 
several hours at XML 1998 (I think) with Eliot Kimber explaining it 
patiently to me. I think I understood it them - I don't now!.

So HyTime was ahead of its time, but the time is catching up. I don't 
think we should use HyTime as the language is arcane by current 
discourse. I think people can understand linking better than they did 
10 years ago if they have a clear exposition.