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- Tom,
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- Great idea, LOTS of applications. Traversing a tree to a given depth
- makes a book. Tony's WWWVeronica is a great idea -- particularly as
- it can pick up WAIS indexes and Gopher and telent sites all together
- and make a megaIndex of the whole scene!
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- Implementation ideas: The WWW library anchor object actually keeps
- track of every anchor visited. It uses a hash table to speed up the
- generation of new names. The HTAnchor_findParent or somesuch routine
- find it if it exists otherwise creates it. You just need a return
- code to tell you whether you have a new one or not, whether to
- truncate the search there.
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- You could use the HTRules translation table for controlling the
- domain of search. Useful things to do with the search are
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- 1. list all references OUT of the domain from within it
- For example, find all telnet sites listed in Hytelnet.
- List all WAIS indexes mentioned in the Web's WAIS catalogue.
- 2. list all referencs within, depth-first, with depth indication
- This can drive a book-making script
- 3. Apply command to everything within the domain
- for checking
- etc etc
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- I even wondered about putting the traverse code into the library do
- that arbitrary browsers could use it. It would generate a hypertext
- list of all objects found for example.
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- Tim
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