/ Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> was heard to say:
| I also think this may be more than just an issue with acronyms. It
| seems like the need to associate an acronym with its expansion or
| spelled-out text isn't that different from the need to associate, say,
| an inline Glossterm with a definition
But for glossary terms, you have a place to put those expansions and a
(relatively) easy way to link to them either implicitly or explicitly.
| or a Ulink with a description
| of what it links to.
XLink has offered a solution for that one.
I agree that acronyms may not be unique in this regard, but I don't
see any place where the necessary markup can go.
| Or to go back for a moment to looking at it from the presentation
| side, I think there may be a general need to link "normal text" that
| gets displayed inline in a rendered document with "annotative text"
| that doesn't get rendered inline, but shows up as a pop-up when you
| mouse over the content it's associated with, or gets optionally
| displayed "on demand" in some other way.
This looks like a slippery slope to me.
Be seeing you,
norm
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