new section for P4 on HTML linking

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 03:40:33PM +0000, Lou Burnard wrote:
> <p>The most widespread application of such external document linking
> is, of course, provided by the World Wide Web. The original version of
> these Guidelines did not provide specific guidance concerning the
> representation of simple HTML linking in TEI, since the Guidelines
                           ^^^^
"HTML-like"?

> <p>As we have indicated, linking to another document (in any format)
> should be done by means of the <gi>xref</gi> or <gi>xptr</gi> element,
> the former being used if some text is to be supplied to identify the
> title of the intended link, the latter if it is not. HTML documents
> may also be linked to in this way. 
last sentence redundant. they are included in "(in any format)"

> <p>In either case, the DTD must also include a declaration for the
> external entity <ident>TEIP3</ident>, which a processor can use to determine
> the intended URL, such as the following:
> <eg><![CDATA[
> <!ENTITY TEIP3 SYSTEM "http://www.tei-c.org/TEI/Guidelines/" NDATA HTML>
> ]]</eg>

if HTML is declared as a notation....

> <p>For these reasons, TEI encoders may wish to declare an additional
> attribute <att>url</att> for the elements <gi>xptr</gi> and
> <gi>xref</gi>

and mention <figure> as well, please!


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