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Re: After XQuery, are we done?

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• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:51:08 -0400
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On Oct 22, 2004, at 1:20 PM, DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:
> Sorry. I agreed with Michael Kay that we don't need any new standard to
> define *hyper*linking (or hypertext), because hyperlinking is the use 
> of UI
> widgets to present different kinds of linking, and each medium has its 
> own
> particular UI capabilities that evolve over time.

I'm not sure that this definition of hyptertext is the generally 
accepted definition. In general, a hypertext is a text that allows 
traversal of a document in ways other than the intrinsically linear 
written structure most languages employ. 

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