older forms of hypertext

This isn't strictly XML, but it's thoughts on earlier hypertext forms by
someone who does a lot of XML (and is on this list as well):

"A nineteenth-century linking application" - Bob DuCharme

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3153

I think we're reinventing Mr.Shepard's work on a regular basis, and I
suspect those little stickers may even have some advantages over our
current approaches.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org