Re: Future of meta-indices: site indexing proposal and Perl script

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Dave Raggett wrote:

> Authors can create a location address element that pairs the object in
> question with a unique local identifier. There are three kinds
> of addressing:

>    a)  by name (using ID attributes)
>    b)  by position in a coordinate space (the GIF example)
>    c)  by semantic construct (e.g. the 3rd polygon on the left)


My suggestion is that the position will be 

    1) A character number N (from the begining of the document) 
    2) An (x,y) pixel inside image number N in the document.

If there is a well defined syntax for this, it can be used in a URL
to point to any location in the document.

    Yosi.