Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A Detailed Proposal - Mk I

[volsung]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Simon Cross wrote:

[huge snip]
>       <a href="/cgi-bin/
>       findarticle?
>       articleserver= articleserver.gnu.org & 
>       authorserver= gnu-authors-reviewers.gnu.org &
>       authorname= joesoap &
>       articlename= whales &
>       articleversion= 2.1
>       "> 

Excellent proposal, but I have one suggestion.  Since the article will be in
XML/HTML anyway, we can modify the DTD (I'd include Schema here, but I don't
know what XML Schema are..) to include a tag just for encyclopedia article
links.  For example, here is a possible usage (paralleling your usage above):

---
...Blah, blah, blah... Oceanographers often go on excursions tracking the
movements of
<article articleserver="articleserver.gnu.org"
         authorserver="gnu-authors-reviewers.gnu.org"
         authorname="joesoap" articlename="whales" 
         articleversion="2.1">whales</article>
in the ocean.
---

Then this tag can be translated into a CGI call, direct link, or whatever else
makes sense to the conversion utility.

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Stan Seibert