Re: [Gzz] PEG about simplifying xanalogical text

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:10:41PM +0100, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> This PEG proposes two things: 

> First, use random ids
> instead of Storm blocks for xu text; 

This one I really like, but not when implemented as unconditionally as you put 
it.

This still needs thinking from a security
etc. perspectives, and that's why I'd like it to coexist with
our current textspan implementation.

Happily, that's very easy to do: just make another class
implementing TextSpan and a new SpanMaker etc. 

> second, make
> text enfilades a data type disjoint from "media"
> (images, PDF, etc.).


> If we move to RDF, we could transclude a PDF as follows:
> Create a node to represent the image; refer to the block
> through a 'load-from' property (the block is a RDF node, by virtue
> of having a URI); also give the page number(s) and coordinates
> you want to transclude, as other properties, if you don't
> want to transclude the whole block.

No, this is how we used to do image spans and it was horrible.

I think rectangular spans from images need to be a primitive.

Could we split the PEG, as these two things are very orthogonal and
at least my opinion on them is very different?

        Tuomas