documentation vs document

• To: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: documentation vs document
• From: Benno Blumenthal <benno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:08:21 -0400

Hi John,

I am beginning to have some regrets about what I did yesterday in terms
of misusing <documentation> by adding a name field.   I think it would
make more sense to have a <document> tag that has both a name and a
link:  documentation should be special (a special document???) and
separate.

So I would have something like this:

...

<documentation
xlink:href="http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.LEVITUS94/.dataset_documentation.html";
/>
<document
xlink:href="http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.LEVITUS94/.oceanviews.html";
name="oceanviews"/>
<document
xlink:href="http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.LEVITUS94/.oceanviews2.html";
name="oceanviews2"/>
<document
xlink:href="http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.LEVITUS94/.Zmix.html";
name="Zmix"/>

...

Does this make sense to you?

Benno

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Dr. M. Benno Blumenthal          benno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
International Research Institute for climate prediction
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
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