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

[Imran Ghory]

On 18 Jan 2001, at 21:52, Mike Warren wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > ---
> > ...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.
> > ---
> 
> Embedding a server-name in the actual data seems like a bad idea; what
> if it changes? A better solution might be to give all articles unique
> IDs, with optional versions, then links can be:
> 
> <article id="some-unique-id" [version="1.2"]>whales</article>
> 
> Ideally, the version would be left out, too, since probably the latest
> one is the one you'd like 

But not necessarily, we need back articles for the sake of 
references.

Imran Ghory