I am now wondering what the purpose of the ohs-dev list is. At the plan for
the kickoff meeting, there was to be talk about use cases and so forth.
Now, I am seeing discussion about alternative engines, which we used to talk
about over on Unrev II. Eugene?
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
To: <ohs-dev@bootstrap.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Link Types and Categories
> I appreciate the link, but could you possibly provide
> a small clue as to what it is, how it works, how good
> it is?
>
> I sat through the marketing pitch (very flashy dynamic
> web pages -- entertaining, but time consuming) only to
> find zero information other than buzzwords: collaboration,
> information, etc.
>
> There is a download button. But I don't yet know enough
> to decide if it's worth taking the time to download,
> install, and play around with until I figure out exactly
> what it is.
>
>
> Malcolm Dean wrote:
> >
> > Have you folks taken a look at Engenia Unity?
> > www.engenia.com
> >
> > Malcolm Dean
> > News Editor, XML Journal (Visit www.sys-con.com/xml/index2.html)
> > News Editor, Maximum Linux (Get a free issue at www.maximumlinux.com)
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> > malcolmdean@earthlink.net
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eric Armstrong" <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
> > To: "ohs-dev" <ohs-dev@bootstrap.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 11:35 AM
> > Subject: Link Types and Categories
> >
> > > Thinking about it, Doug was right (surprise).
> > > Link types serve more functions than simply
> > > identifying themselves as hide/show/include.
> > >
> > > In fact, the decision to hide/link/include is
> > > a property of the view, not of the link. So
> > > one might choose, as defaults, to:
> > > * hide glossary links
> > > * show citation links
> > > * include responses
> > >
> > > Now, the category of the target node *could* be
> > > used to make the view-decision -- but that would
> > > require traversing every link to determine the
> > > proper handling. Nobody wants to live with the
> > > kind of performance that will result from that.
> > >
> > > The reasonable alternative, therefore, is to
> > > include semantically-oriented link types. At
> > > a minimum, then, we have:
> > > * glossary (<gls> or <def>)
> > > * citation (<cite>)
> > > * response (<resp>)
> > >
> > > Node categories are still required for IBIS
> > > discussions. A particular response might be a
> > > question, argument for, or argument against.
> > > I suspect, though, that we don't want to include
> > > all those options in the link types -- most
> > > particularly because the category list will grow
> > > and evolve dynamically in each installation of
> > > the system.
> > >
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