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At 11:30 AM 9/27/98 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote: >The FPIs used in public attributes in topic navigation maps do not need to >be persistent: they do need even need to be resolvable. They do need to be >"researchable": you should be able to find a copy of the original definition >somewhere to be able to ensure that you are using the topic correctly. If you can find the definition of something by an FPI, then you have resolved the thing. Thus the FPI is resolvable. It may not be resolvable electronically (I called you up and said, hey, what does this FPI mean), but so what? If you need electronic resolution, then you create a bibloc that provides the electronic proxy representation for the thing itself: that's what a bibliographic location is for (see my signature at the bottom of this note for an example). If your argument is that it doesn't need to be *electronically* resolvable, I'd argue that, in today's world, it would take more effort to make something researchable but not resolvable than it would be to make it resolvable. That's because whatever you publish will probably start as an electronic data set anyway, so why not simply publish it to the Web? If I do that and then tell you "FPI 'x' maps to URL 'y', the FPI is electronically resolvable. If I can't figure out what an FPI maps to, whether the resource is electronic or not, then the FPI is meaningless because it doesn't get me to anything. Thus, if an FPI is researchable, it's just as easy to make it resolvable. Cheers, E. -- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer ISOGEN International Corp. 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 75202. 214.953.0004 www.isogen.com </Address> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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