On 12/13/13 3:02 AM, davep wrote:
> On 13/12/13 03:53, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>> On 12/12/13 10:32 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 11:58 -0500, Steve Newcomb wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my view, what SGML never had, and XML still doesn't have, is a
>>>> mechanism for disclosing the semantic intent of a document address.
>>>> When I mention an address, what am I talking about? In the absence
>>>> of a
>>>> characterization of intent, it's extremely ambiguous.
>>> +1
>>>
>>> I don't believe that "HTTP Range" cuts it, as putting # on the end of a
>>> URI is not out-of-band, and still only gives two options (the resource
>>> itself or the resource as a surrogate).
>>>
>>> At one time I hoped topic maps would give us more of this.
>>>
>>> Liam
>>>
>> HTML has it though: it's the content of the A tag.
>>
>> <A href="address">what you can expect to find at the address</A>
>>
>> -Mike
>
> I have a sneaking suspicion that Steve didn't equate such a simple
> interpretation with it Mike?
Yes, and I was only half joking. We often gin up complexity where a
simple solution already exists, and this conversation has that smell to
me, but it's too early to judge -- I'll step back and see where it goes.
-Mike
