Numbers as anchors

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So I did a little experiment: Using a moderately random collection of
http: URIs created elsewhere for a web language corpus, I looked at
10404 web pages.  Of these 1520 pages, from 758 distinct hosts,
contained references (22408 in total) to URIs which included #
followed by a digit.  Of the references 2939 were local, i.e. of the
form "#[0-9]...".  Of the 13024 _unique_ fragments 11453 were actually
integers, i.e. of the form #[0-9]+ and a further 66 were decimals,
i.e. of the form #[0-9]+.[0-9]*

I then refetched the same pages (139 didn't make it the second time,
so the total was down to 10265), and found 992 pages, from 636
distinct hosts, which contained anchors (<a href= or <a id=) which
began with a digit.

So, there are a _lot_ of ostensibly broken fragments and anchors out
there.

No, I did not check what percentage of the data was XML, I'll do that.

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