"Eve Maler, UNIX Software Publications" <>
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To: Bob Stayton <>
Subject: Re: LINKs 
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 11 Aug 93 10:25:38 -0700.
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 14:31:18 -0400
From: "Eve Maler, UNIX Software Publications" <>
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Status: RO
I wanted to support Bob Stayton's suggestion about storing hierarchy
information in a flat way in links:

 >In either case, I still would like to
 >provide information to connect the <S3> section to its
 >parent, children, and siblings.  The very act of
 >breaking up the large document means I have to
 >provide some mechanism to indicate those connections,
 >either with the LINK mechanism in HTML or as some
 >IDREF attributes in the <S> tags.  There should
 >be enough information to reassemble the 
 >hierarchy starting from any point in the hierarchy.

off the net, if the original document depended on hierarchical context
and containment to provide some information then you definitely don't
want to lose that information.

purpose of recording their hierarchical context seems like a good thing
problematic for traditional hardcopy output if the pieces weren't
nested in the original source.)

made accessible separately.  Not everything can be written modularly
down to the last paragraph, and sometimes subtrees should simply travel
of its context.


	Eve Maler
	Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH, USA