Fine-Grained Addressing

Parts of pages, not only entire pages, can be addressed.

Possibilities

HTML Fragment Identifiers

Some wikis support syntax for manually creating HTML “<A NAME=…>” anchors. This is somewhat more useful on Wikis than elsewhere, since new anchors can be added by people other than the author.

Something like this is necessary to support links in a TableOfContents.

Purple Numbers

Each paragraph (or other structural element - footnote, section, figure, etc.) has a unique identifier, known as a NID (node identifier). (These were called SIDs - Statement Identifiers - in NlsAugment.) Ideally NIDs are permanent, but they are temporary in some implementations. For convenience there are also HIDs - hierarchical identifiers - that are specific to a particular version of a document and specify a logical location within the document (e.g. “paragraph 2 of section 3”).

PurpleWiki supports permanent NIDs. BR MoinMoin automatically generates fragment ids for all headings.

VLit-style TransQuotation

Arbitrary regions can be referenced (character spans, or parts of images). The Eprints archive server supports this.

Implementations

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