Transclusion

In computer science, some hypertext systems, including Ted Nelson's Xanadu Project, have the capability for documents to include sections of other documents by reference, called 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 allows it to be stored only once (and perhaps corrected and updated if the link type supported that) and viewed in different contexts. The reference also serves to link both articles.

Related Topics:
Computer science - Hypertext - Ted Nelson - Xanadu Project

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In Ted Nelson's original proposal for hypertext, outlined in his 1982 book, Literary Machines, micropayments would be automatically exacted from the reader for all the text, no matter how many snippets of content are taken from various places.

Related Topics:
Literary Machines - Micropayment

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