Edited sentence: Charles Goldfarb, one of the founding pioneers in SGML, satirically compared the antagonism between XROC and XRIC paradigms to a religious war, which would be moderately called the cross-reference war.From the text retrieval point of view, hypertext as a new retrieval paradigm, 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 who used to object to the wide spectrum of text retrieval or cross-reference and subject it mainly to the narrow idea of transclusion, or simply quotation, aiming for text patchwork rather than retrieval.Soon after the advent of the Web, there was a rumor that XRIC features of the Web were better than the Gopher's XROC system.The narrow or common sense of hypertext implies XRIC, while the wide or true sense includes XROC as well.Unfortunately, however, the schism between both text retrieval paradigms appears reflected on ACM/SIGIR and ACM/SIGWEB much overlapping each other.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.nl:Doorverwijzing (naslagwerken).pt:Referência cruzada