Hi Boris ...

Looking for the best of all words, I arrive at the idea to define a set of "method" names, whose results are HTML Tables, that "naturally" embed into each other. Somehow I have a feeling that the logic of such "distributed tabling" can be isolated from HTML, so that a nice and clean query language in terms of partial functions and 2D grid portions ("tableaux") might emerge. Since I am just starting on that hunch, I was wondering if somebody else had already hit on such an intuition and drawn any conclusions from which I could shamelessly profit.

**** I don't clearly understand your proposal. If you create a sample page with with the embedded tables this would help make your ideas clear.

Also, these musings reminded me of an old project I had once started, to provide an uniform annotation facility...

XML seems to be the "holy grail" solution but it's not here yet in terms of commonly used browsers. General one page description of XML: http://www.textuality.com/xml/ Tim Bray's annotated copy of the XML spec using frames. Perhaps some ideas here? http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html -bobo connor

Regards,Boris Borcic