So I don't know what prose to put in the spec, but I think REL/REV
are standard attributes at this point.
Something along the lines of:
REL
Level ? [my feeling is this may need to be 2 not 1]
The REL attribute describes the relationship to the current
document of the object pointed to by the link. The value of the
attribute is one of:
CHILD The link points "down" to a subordinate object
FOLLOWS|NEXT The link points to the next document in sequence
PARENT The link points "up" or "back" to a higher level
PRECEDES|PREVIOUS The link points to the previous doc in seq
FORK The link indicates a divergence from the
current topic
REPLY-TO [I like the idea...is this for MAILTO urls?]
STYLESHEET The links points to a stylesheet for the
current doc
OWNER [How does this differ from PARENT?]
AUTHOR The link points to this doc's author
RESOURCE The link points to a non-document object like
an ftp-able program or a script which does
processing
ILLUSTRATION The link points to an object which explains or
eludicates (sound, video, graphic, more text)
but which is not an essential component of
this document's stream of thought.
... there are going to be rather a lot of these I think
REV
Level ? [ditto]
The REV attribute describes the relationship of the current
document to the object pointed to by the link. The value of the
attribute is one of:
[same lot but with explanations reversed]
///Peter