- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:41:29 -0800
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Nov 16, 2004, at 7:03 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote: >> I oppose this, at least partly on the grounds of absence of >> use-cases. Can someone provide some scenarios where this would be >> helpful? -Tim > > If it were possible to use XPointers as fragment IDs, I would be able > to give unique URI references to the articles in the Cafe au Lait and > Cafe con Leche RSS feeds. Currently some people are complaining > because I reuse one URI for several items. That's only if you serve it as text/xml or application/xml, which I assume you don't. I assume you serve it as something useful, for example text/html or application/xhtml+xml (I'm writing this on an airplane so can't check). In either of those cases, the language comes with a well-defined way to use fragment IDs. This is precisely the reason I'm pushing back - it's only useful in the case where something is served as */xml, and when I observe that in the wild, it's usually an error (e.g. RSS feeds) which is cheerfully ignored by the receiving software anyhow. XML is a meta-language. The reason it exists is so that you can define languages, and when you define a language you typically also provide a #frag-id syntax to go with it. -Tim
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