A cross-reference (noun) is an instance within a document A document is a bounded physical or digital representation of a body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate. A document may manifest symbolic, diagrammatic or sensory-representational information. To document (verb) is to produce a document artifact by collecting and representing information. In prototypical which refers to related or synonymous information elsewhere, usually within the same work. To cross-reference or to cross-refer (verb) is to make such connections. The term "cross-reference" is often abbreviated as x-ref, xref, or, in computer science, XR. Cross-referencing is usually employed to either verify claims made by an author or to link to another piece of work that is of related interest. See, for example, the Linux Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone cross-reference tool, for init/main.c. In an index, a cross reference is often denoted by See Also. For example, under the term Albert Einstein in the index of a book about Nobel Laureates, there may be the cross-reference See Also: Einstein, Albert.
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Hypertext
Cross-referencing in hypertext Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the (XR) is maintained internally or externally to a document with either in-context (XRIC) or out-of-context (XROC) cross-referencing. These are analogous to KWIC KWIC is an acronym for Key Word In Context, the most common format for concordance lines. The term KWIC was first coined by Hans Peter Luhn and KWOC, which were very early computer applications inherited from the centuries-old idea of concordance.
Traditionally, reference numbers and footnote marks are examples of in-context cross-referencing, whereas the index An index is a list of words or phrases and associated pointers ('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document. In a traditional back-of-the-book index the headings will include names of people, places and events, and concepts selected by a person as being relevant and of interest to a possible reader of and the reference list at the end of texts are examples of out-of-context cross-referencing. Out-of-context cross-referencing relies on the traditional, manually-produced indexes using subject or citation. This remained the mainstream text retrieval Document retrieval is defined as the matching of some stated user query against a set of free-text records. These records could be any type of mainly unstructured text, such as newspaper articles, real estate records or paragraphs in a manual. User queries can range from multi-sentence full descriptions of an information need to a few words system until the advent of CD-ROM CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback, the 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data in 1985, since which the digital text, the hypertext Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the, and eventually the World Wide Web The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as The Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, British and search engines A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list of results and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike, provided systems for XRIC.
Soon after the advent of the Web, there was a rumor that XRIC features of the Web were better than the Gopher The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Software using this protocol was a predecessor of the World Wide Web. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its's XROC system. Charles Goldfarb Charles F. Goldfarb is known as the father of SGML and is a co-inventor of the concept of markup languages. In 1969 Charles Goldfarb, leading a small team at IBM, developed the first markup language, called Generalized Markup Language, or GML. In an interview with Web Techniques Magazine editor Michael Floyd, Dr. Goldfarb explains that he coined, one of the founding pioneers in SGML The Standard Generalized Markup Language is an ISO-standard technology for defining generalized markup languages for documents. ISO 8879 Annex A.1 defines generalized markup:, satirically compared the antagonism between XROC and XRIC paradigms to a religious war, which would be moderately called the cross-reference war. While the Web surpassed Gopher, in that XRIC is better than XROC in hypertext, both are as complementary as the two sides of the coin. Unfortunately, however, the schism A schism , from Greek σχίσμα, skhísma (from σχίζω, skhízō, "to tear, to split"), is a split or division between people, usually belonging to an organization or movement. The word is most frequently applied to a break of communion between two sections of Christianity that were previously a single body, or to a division between both text retrieval paradigms appears reflected on ACM/SIGIR and ACM/SIGWEB much overlapping each other.
The narrow or common sense of hypertext Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the implies XRIC, while the wide or true sense includes XROC as well. From the text retrieval point of view, hypertext as a new retrieval paradigm The word paradigm , has been used in linguistics and science to describe distinct concepts, objecting to XROC or subjecting itself mainly to XRIC, sounds like a self-defeating misnomer, because text retrieval and cross-reference well comprise both XROC and XRIC in themselves. Ironically, hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has who used to object to the wide spectrum of text retrieval Document retrieval is defined as the matching of some stated user query against a set of free-text records. These records could be any type of mainly unstructured text, such as newspaper articles, real estate records or paragraphs in a manual. User queries can range from multi-sentence full descriptions of an information need to a few words or cross-reference and subject it mainly to the narrow idea of transclusion For example, an article about a country might include a chart or a paragraph describing that country's agricultural exports from a different article about agriculture. Rather than copying the included data and storing it in two places, a transclusion embodies modular design, by allowing it to be stored only once and viewed in different contexts, or simply quotation A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed to its original source, and it is indicated by (punctuated with) quotation marks, aiming for text patchwork rather than retrieval.
RDBMS
A table can have an xref as prefix to indicate it is a cross-reference table that joins two tables together via primary key.
Lexicography
In printed and online dictionaries cross-references are important for several reasons. According to Nielsen (1999) they form a network structure of relations existing between different parts of data, dictionary-internal as well as dictionary external. The abstract mediostructure consists of all the possible sets of cross-referential relations. The actual realisation of these referential networks may be function-related, i.e. support a dictionary function such as translation. A distinction can be made between use-related and function-related cross-references. It is also possible to show hierarchical relationships (genus/species relation) between terms as well as sequential relations by using cross-references. The important point is that compilers of dictionaries need to take a broad approach to cross-references in dictionaries as they are directly linked to other structures in dictionaries.
References
- Sandro Nielsen (1999): "Mediostructures in Bilingual LSP Dictionaries." In: Lexicographica. International Annual for Lexicography 15, 90-113.
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