[osis-core] osisCore_Candiate_1.1_003 - 11 osisRef URLs

Harry Plantinga osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:32:34 -0400


> The <a> element, on the other hand, carries only the notion that the 
> surrounded text is a pointer to other material. The material 
> pointed to 
> may confirm, contradict, or expand, contract what is said in 
> the text or 
> may be completely irrelevant. The relationship between the 
> content of an 
> <a> element, without more in the markup, is just undefined.
> 
> I don't see traversal as being the defintion
> 
> Harry, does that capture the essence of what you were saying?

Um, well, I did have optional traversal as being part of the 
definition. (We computer scientists like to consider algorithm 
to be as fundamental to nature as semantics or laws -- or perhaps 
moreso -- not something that always has to be avoided in 
speaking of semantics. See Steven Wolfram's latest book, in 
which he claims to re-do all of science in terms of algorithms 
rather than laws, thereby achieving a deeper understanding.) 

But no matter; I don't think a browser with hypertext links that
can't actually be traversed will get very far...

-Harry