- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:30:14 -0500
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, "wangxiao@musc.edu" <wangxiao@musc.edu>, W3C-TAG Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Jonathan A Rees <jar@mumble.net>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
> > From: Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) >> [ . . . ] >> The HTTP range question simply asks what sort of things can >> an HTTP URI refer to? >> And the answer given is 'any kind of thing' (whether or not >> their is a '#' in the spelling of the URI). > >True, but to be clear, the WebArch also imposes some additional >constraints that depend on: (a) what kind of resource is denoted; >and (b) the media type returned when the URI is dereferenced. In >particular: > > - If the URI denotes a non-information resource and the URI has a >fragment identifier and a 200 response is returned when the racine >(the part before the '#') of the URI is dereferenced, then the media >type returned must be a media type that permits its fragment >identifiers to denote arbitrary resources. For example, you may >return RDF but *not* (currently) HTML, because the media type for >RDF permits a fragment identifier to denote anything, whereas in >HTML a fragment identifier denotes a location within the document. Does the HTML spec mention denotation? Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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