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RE: re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

• To: 'Sean McGrath' <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Subject: RE: re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:33:00 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

That was the point I made in the Vancouver speech 
at the first hytime conference.  I even wrote a 
formula out for it because it had to include 
the notion of time (linking into a process) 
given a dynamic system.

There is a straightforward analogy of view to 
query to hyperlink to function.   Given a decent 
relational backend, the hypertext goes back to 
being ThinGUI.   Consider what a completely 
non-inlined system would look like, or just 
pull out the old Windows GUI description files. 

A view and topical link look an awful lot alike 
is the link is just a control over a query.  As 
asked in a thread two weeks ago, what is the advantage 
of a topic map over a query?   Why are most linking 
tools considered mostly at the presentation layer?

To click on a query.  They are controls.  It is 
one reason I am not sanguine about requiring 
namespaces as the total solution for glueing 
aggregates together.  URIs are system identifiers.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@p...]

I had cause recently to muse that the database concept of a "view" is one 
of the more powerful ideas we somehow lost in the headlong rush to XML 
content/presentation dualism.

Come back database view technology: all is forgiven
http://www.propylon.com/html/knowledge/Come_Back_Database_View_Technology_All_is_Forgiven_20020919.html

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