RE: [ba-ohs-talk] :xu: Serious deep addressing (was Re: ![Gzz] Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Starting Point for Collab Tool
> Not just every paragraph, but every character, must be tracked.
> When you're almost there, why stop?
>
> I would recommend another look at the tumbler mathematics by
> Roger Gregory and Mark Miller, described in *Literary Machines*
> (you can find an illegal copy on the Web someplace, scanned as
> muiltipage fax=TIF=jfax). (01)
I've not yet located the scan, but there is a page about this here :
http://udanax.com/green/febe/tumblers.html (02)
The W3C specs have gone down a similar path with XPath and XPointer as ways
of addressing parts (down to individual characters) of an XML doc e.g.
#xpointer(id('boy-blue')/horn[1])element(boy-blue/3) (03)
The biggest difference to my eyes would be that the W3C system is 'lumpy',
particularly as the documents will be addressed through reference to a
server - I don't think it is possible to do a 'smooth' relative reference
from one arbitrary point in a doc on one server to another point on another.
(I'm not entirely sure how you'd sequence the servers either - aardvark.au
first?) (04)
I'm curious, has any work on this kind of system been done in the
compression/crypto worlds? I'm sure this is ground well trodden, but if you
had a doc starting with "abcdef..." then you can make words up as (start
letter, number of letters) pairs. (05)
Cheers,
Danny. (06)