By the way Eugene, excuse me for forgetting: thanks for the link on your
Web site. (01)
Also, I have thought about a PS solution for "publishers". It should be a
simple matter to include PS in a header site wide. The page would get
purplized when called (instead of having the numbers "hard coded"). This
would be an easy way to retrofit existing sites. (02)
Matt (03)
On Thu, 08 May 2003 22:29:03 -0500, Matthew A. Schneider
<matsch@sasites.com> wrote: (04)
> I don't currently have any plans for calculating NIDS. As Eugene points
> out in his "Introduction to Purple": "hierarchical addresses work great
> for published documents, because the documents are fairly static"
> (http://www.eekim.com/software/purple/purple.html#nid028).
>
> My target population for PS is the millions of published documents that
> exist on the Web and Intranets everywhere.
>
> The links generated by PS are not quite hierarchical IDs either. PS will
> place an anchor where ever a <h> <p> or <li> appears in the markup. So if
> one uses <p> for layout, then that page gets anchors at those locations.
>
> Under these circumstances do you think it appropriate for me to adopt the
> "nid" standard? I am a member of the Church, but perhaps you could call
> me Martin Luther ;)
>
> Purple is, in my opinion, a solution for the author/publisher.
> PurpleSlurple, on the other hand, is a solution for the reader/consumer.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2003 11:58:38 -0700, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@blueoxen.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Glad to see progress on PurpleSlurple, Matt. Some questions below.
>>
>> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:32:25PM -0500, Matthew A. Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> * PS links are immutable -- on static documents.
>>
>> What's your scheme for calculating NIDs?
>>
>> I noticed that you use #purp for your granular links. I'd like to
>> encourage you to adopt #nid instead, which is what we've been using
>> for a while now. It would show a bit of solidarity for all of us who
>> believe in the Church of Purple. :-) For a history of how this
>> convention evolved, see:
>>
>> http://collab.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PurpleNumberHistory#nid05
>>
>> I added a link to PurpleSlurple on the PurpleWiki site under Related
>> Work:
>>
>> http://purplewiki.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RelatedWork#nid02
>>
>> -Eugene
>>
>
>
> (05)
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