A practice in the Open Hyperdocument System of making all documents Paragraph Addressable by inserting A-[NAMEs] at that level.

ChrisDent:BlogTweaks describes Chris' hacks to implement Purple Numbers and Transclus Ion in a WebLog and a WiKi (EMail to come?)

ChrisDent:PurpleNetwork describes A collection of documents and resources which all use the same source for Purple Numbers. Such a collection can transclude among itself, even if the documents are not of the same type.

Need to get down some thoughts on Purple Numbers and Transclus Ion (as it inches toward a NodeWeb vision)...

• if you're just going after granular addressability, then node ids (nid-s) can be pretty much anything, as long as they're unique within the document

  • but common User Story is refactoring a document, so a paragraph/node could move to a totally different page/document. So code has to be at least domain-unique. Might as well go all the way to to UUID?

• nodes (Information Block-s) get identified with a tag like {nid351}

• multiple media/channels (a wiki, an Email List) can share a Purple Numbers server which hands out node ids.

• do we need a URI-authority like TimBray to give some input? (should a nid be thought of as a URI? should its containing document have some BaseNidHost tag or something to identify its purple-source?)

• .....

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