Isn't this also the mode of WinHelp? WinHelp uses a restricted target
set (footnotes in page delimited chunks), but the rest of the
hyperlinking
is topical based on the project file (defines the objects whose topics
are targets) and the #define files (string and paired ID) for the
software to use for contextual help, and the compiled files.
> 2. The "I only know about what I have seen or am now seeing" mode. This is
> the normal "Web" mode or the Panorama mode (except that Panorama only
> remembers what it knows about the current document, unfortunately).
How does Panorama store linking information?
> Note that the two modes can be combined, such that you might know
> everything about one set of documents but only about pointers to another
> set. The data structures needed to manage knowledge of the links is the
> same in both modes, the only question is when do you gather the knowledge?
Well, not just when, but how is it packed if it is in separate files for
different processors? Consider the winHelp model. I ask because my
guess is a very high percentage of the legacy hypertext in the world
right now in need of conversion is WinHelp. That means taking the
separate pieces and mapping them to the XML-n models.
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