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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Subject: Re: Bibliography updates for new editions?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:05:42 +0100
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Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 18:11 schrieb Michael Fuhr:
> Sure, but why not save them the effort?  If somebody (me) is willing
> to track down the links, what benefit is there in not providing them?
> The Bibliography already provides links to other items -- why not the
> books as well?

I don't think the publisher's web site is particularly relevant.  You might as 
well link to the authors' home pages as well.  And then we start attaching 
links to everything all over the documentation.  In an XLink world, this 
might make sense, but not right now, I think.

The other links lead to the actual document, which is relevant.

If there were a functional URN namespace for ISBNs then I would support 
linking the ISBNs to that.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/