[thelist] Usability Ideas/Suggestions

David.Cantrell at Gunter.AF.mil David.Cantrell at Gunter.AF.mil
Fri Aug 16 09:14:01 CDT 2002


>REL = relationship of referenced page to referencing page.
>REV = relationship of referencing page to referenced page.

The examples you gave both are from the child's point of view. Just out of
curiosity, is there a variant that gives this information from the parent's
view? This type of semantic structure is not inherent in the link tag.

In other words, can you build a tree top-down or does it have to be
bottom-up? For example, given a complete site of HTML, say I want to parse
all the pages and build a tree of parent-child relationships. Can I start at
the root of the tree and find the <link> tag that specifies all it's
children and go from there? Or do I have to read in a page, see if it
references any parents, if not it's the root, if so load it's parent and see
if it has a parent, etc.

BTW Thanks for bringing this feature up. I'd thought I read this in an old
spec years back but have never seen a real application of it. Still looking
for one...

Thanks,
-dave



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