Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding

As the amount of material on the World Wide Web continues to grow, users are discovering that the Web's embedded, hard-coded, links are difficult to maintain and update. Hyperlinks need a degree of abstraction in the way they are specified together with a sound underlying document structure and...

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Main Author: Brailsford, David F.
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Published: ACM 1999
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description As the amount of material on the World Wide Web continues to grow, users are discovering that the Web's embedded, hard-coded, links are difficult to maintain and update. Hyperlinks need a degree of abstraction in the way they are specified together with a sound underlying document structure and the property of separability from the documents they are linking. The case is made by studying the advantages of program/data separation in computer system architectures and also by re-examining some selected hypermedia systems that have already implemented separability. The prospects for introducing more abstract links into future versions of HTML and PDF, via emerging standards such as XPath, XPointer XLink and URN, are briefly discussed.
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spelling nottingham-2032020-05-04T20:33:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/203/ Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding Brailsford, David F. As the amount of material on the World Wide Web continues to grow, users are discovering that the Web's embedded, hard-coded, links are difficult to maintain and update. Hyperlinks need a degree of abstraction in the way they are specified together with a sound underlying document structure and the property of separability from the documents they are linking. The case is made by studying the advantages of program/data separation in computer system architectures and also by re-examining some selected hypermedia systems that have already implemented separability. The prospects for introducing more abstract links into future versions of HTML and PDF, via emerging standards such as XPath, XPointer XLink and URN, are briefly discussed. ACM 1999-12 Article PeerReviewed Brailsford, David F. (1999) Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding. ACM Computing Surveys, 31 (4es). Hypertext hyperlinking linkbases XLink URN XPath XPointer
spellingShingle Hypertext
hyperlinking
linkbases
XLink
URN
XPath
XPointer
Brailsford, David F.
Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding
title Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding
title_full Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding
title_fullStr Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding
title_full_unstemmed Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding
title_short Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding
title_sort separable hyperstructure and delayed link binding
topic Hypertext
hyperlinking
linkbases
XLink
URN
XPath
XPointer
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/203/