On 12/12/13 10:32 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 11:58 -0500, Steve Newcomb wrote:
>
>> In my view, what SGML never had, and XML still doesn't have, is a
>> mechanism for disclosing the semantic intent of a document address.
>> When I mention an address, what am I talking about? In the absence of a
>> characterization of intent, it's extremely ambiguous.
> +1
>
> I don't believe that "HTTP Range" cuts it, as putting # on the end of a
> URI is not out-of-band, and still only gives two options (the resource
> itself or the resource as a surrogate).
>
> At one time I hoped topic maps would give us more of this.
>
> Liam
>
HTML has it though: it's the content of the A tag.
<A href="address">what you can expect to find at the address</A>
-Mike