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- noun computing The
inclusion of part ofhypertext document in another one by means ofreference rather thancopying .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The thing about "real" transclusion is that the transcluded text/object is literally in more than one place at a time, and that allows one to add more context to things, e.g., someone could put your post in the context of a page about transclusion-like techniques, and it literally would be part of the page.
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Ted Nelson called this idea "transclusion" and it was one of two essential properties of Xanadu that distinguished it from the Web.
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Okay, I think 'transclusion' is what was hanging me up -- that's something computer people made up to mean 'taking a bit of something and sticking it in somewhere else while leaving the original where it was', is it?
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Okay, I think 'transclusion' is what was hanging me up -- that's something computer people made up to mean 'taking a bit of something and sticking it in somewhere else while leaving the original where it was', is it?
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Okay, I think 'transclusion' is what was hanging me up -- that's something computer people made up to mean 'taking a bit of something and sticking it in somewhere else while leaving the original where it was', is it?
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Of course, an interface like that would require some form of transclusion.
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Names of these files will need to be changed, but the transclusion is awesome!
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Names of these files will need to be changed, but the transclusion is awesome!
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Names of these files will need to be changed, but the transclusion is awesome!
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Names of these files will need to be changed, but the transclusion is awesome!
mkb commented on the word transclusion
Inclusion by reference. Term coined by Ted Nelson. For full explanation see...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
July 31, 2008