DETERMINING WHETHER A SECOND HYPERTEXT DOCUMENT IS INCLUDED IN A LIST OF ACTIVE DOCUMENT TRAILS

An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a “document trail” to facilitate the location of other documents reachable from a given hypertext document. The document trail includes a plurality of identifiers that respectively identify a plurality of interlinked hypertext documents and permit a user to navigate from a origination hypertext document to a destination hypertext document simply by following the trail of interlinked hypertext documents to the destination hypertext document.