- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:44:28 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "Nikunj R. Mehta" <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: >> What do you mean by "there's no good way to do a cross reference"? How about >> something like >> >> Section 5.1.2 of [RFC2616] >> >> (assuming you want Request-URI)? > > That wouldn't be a version-independent reference. > > (What HTML5 is referencing here is "the address of the resource from which > the Request-URI was obtained", a term from RFC 2616's 14.36 Referer > section. If it was an HTML spec, I could just like straight to the ID of > the term, but at best I can give the section number and name, which is > very brittle.) I assume that an ID is better than a section number, but is there really *any* guarantee that IDs will survive revisions of W3C specs? BR, Julian
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