Just limiting it to HTML docs for now, it'd be relatively easy to reference
and obtain only parts of documents via the <a name=""> anchor. I for one
though would have to use the name tag differently - right now I use it
to signify the beginning of a part from a multi-part document, whereas
instead it should contain the entire part itself. For example:
Right now in http://www.wired.com/Etext/1.3/departments/street.cred.html:
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<h2><a name="vending">Internet Vending Machines</a></h2>
In the mid-1970s some brilliant student at Carnegie Mellon University got
tired of trudging down many flights of stairs from his computer terminal
to get a soda from a basement vending machine. By some law of the
universe, the machine was always out of his favorite variety whenever he
was most thirsty. So he hacked up a network connection to the vending
contraption. Now, before he made the long trip down, he would e-mail it to
see which sodas were available.
(more)
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should be instead:
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<a name="vending">
<h2>Internet Vending Machines</h2>
In the mid-1970s some brilliant student at Carnegie Mellon University got
tired of trudging down many flights of stairs from his computer terminal
to get a soda from a basement vending machine. By some law of the
universe, the machine was always out of his favorite variety whenever he
was most thirsty. So he hacked up a network connection to the vending
contraption. Now, before he made the long trip down, he would e-mail it to
see which sodas were available.
(more)
</a>
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That way I could easily say <include src="street.cred.html#vending">
and never have to worry about conflicting head or body tags.
> The advantage of the include markup would be that the user would not
> have to click on a link to follow it. Simply openeing the document would
> force the following of the include links.
Also, one could specify "don't follow includes", if they wished.
Brian