Re: Link info outside doc

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@www3.cern.ch)
Wed, 30 Jun 93 13:11:15 +0200


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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.
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>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