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[Norman Walsh]

/ Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> was heard to say: | I also think this may be more than just an issue with acronyms. It | seems like the need to associate an acronym with its expansion or | spelled-out text isn't that different from the need to associate, say, | an inline Glossterm with a definition But for glossary terms, you have a place to put those expansions and a (relatively) easy way to link to them either implicitly or explicitly. | or a Ulink with a description | of what it links to. XLink has offered a solution for that one. I agree that acronyms may not be unique in this regard, but I don't see any place where the necessary markup can go. | Or to go back for a moment to looking at it from the presentation | side, I think there may be a general need to link "normal text" that | gets displayed inline in a rendered document with "annotative text" | that doesn't get rendered inline, but shows up as a pop-up when you | mouse over the content it's associated with, or gets optionally | displayed "on demand" in some other way. This looks like a slippery slope to me. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Kinship is healing; we are http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | physicians to each other.--Oliver Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | Sacks