- From: Alan Karben <karben@interactive.wsj.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:59:13 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
In our authoring system, we mark up companies like:
<phrase type="company" symbol="gm">General Motors</phrase>
In the HTML we deliver, this becomes something like:
<a href="/inap-bin/bb?page=15&sym=gm">General Motors</a>
-- which is a hyperlink to a "Briefing Book" on GM.
QUESTION ONE
What would be the XML way to link all company names to their corresponding
Briefing Books? Does that fact that other <phrase> types (such as
type="person") do NOT link to Briefing Books mean we couldn't make <phrase>
an XML-LINK, and instead we should generate:
<company symbol="gm">General Motors</company>
with:
<!element company (%enriched-text;)*>
<!attlist company
xml-link cdata #fixed "xlink"
symbol cdata "URL" (mapping to HRTYPE here)
locsrc cdata "/inap-bin/bb?page=15&sym="
title cdata "Link to Briefing Book"
>
QUESTION TWO
How could we allow our customers to transform our one-to-one link (to a
Briefing Book) to a one-to-two link (to *our* B.B. OR a query on *their*
databases for mentions of GM)?
Would they somehow load alongside the WSJ a Personal Linking Document that
redefines our element declaration? Or is this the XLG/XLD stuff?
Alan.
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