Re: Link info outside doc

Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 13:11:15 +0200
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9306301111.AA04076@www3.cern.ch>
To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Subject: Re: Link info outside doc
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch


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>Begin forwarded message:
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>From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 11:18:31 PDT
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>To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
>Subject: Link info outside doc
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>Here's why I'd like to be able to store the link info outside the 

>document.  I have documents that have a set order (chapters of a 

>book, chunks of chapters of a book) and that all need NEXT and 

>PREVIOUS links.  In the present HTML, I have to (don't I?) provide
>the URLs for the next and previous documents in each document.
>This is tedious and prone to error.
...
>-- 

>Terry Allen  (terry@ora.com)

I think your solution is to keep a database of what files
are in which book(s).  You run a special server which
will automatically append the navigation information
from the database.   HTML is a delivery format.
It does not have to be your storage format.

Tim BL