Re: Request for latest survey articles on the theory of transclusion

Bill Mcdaniel ([email protected])
Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:13:22 -0500

Austin Meredith writesPrbr> > REQUEST FOR INFO ON TRANSCLUSION:
> I'd appreciate knowing what are the latest survey articles on the general
> theoretical subject of _transclusion_ -- that is to say:
>
> the incorporation of pieces of text, more or less as quotation
> or inclusions, by reference, from standard maintained base
> "include" files stored elsewher>.
>
> Would there be someon> on this list who keeps up with such deep-think
> database-type literature?

Wolf, Gary, "The Curse of Xanadu," WIRED 3.06, June 1995, pp. 138-152 and
e94-202.

Unbelievable story of Ted Nelson and Xanadu project - "a 30-year Includes nonrigora> vario> Try not to laugh or weep while reading it...

all the best, Don

-- 
The above reply reflects my thoughts exactly. 
transclusion has been going on for some time in IBM mainframe and other tag 
orientd markup languages. See goldfarb's articles in vario>

Read the Wired article and w>ep at all the time and mon>y wasted on a 
proprietary dream while the real world just passed it by with real solutions.


Thanks
Bill McDaniel

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