Re: keyword tag?

Craig Hubley (craig@passport.ca)
Thu, 4 May 95 00:27:53 EDT

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> > | Personally, I would like to be able to "type" parts of my documents. A
> > | trivial example would be:
> > |
> > | <TYPE name="location/city">Hope</TYPE>

This is analogous to the link name problem. Even the syntax here is the same.

> <dfn class="location.city">Hope</dfn>
>
> Subclassing HTML tags in this way allows you to carry on using your
> current Web browser without having to take the hit on interoperability
> from switching to a custom DTD plus downloading the DTD and style sheet.

This is exactly the issue I have with trying to support links as first class
objects at this time.

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