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RE: Resources and representations (was RE: Subgroup to handle semantics of HTTP etc?)

From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:55:08 -0500
Message-Id: <p0623090cc3455375ba40@[10.100.0.19]>
To: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>
Cc: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>, <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>

>Hello Pat,
>
>
>>  Does the HTML spec mention denotation?
>>
>>  Pat
>
>>From RFC 2854 the media type registration for text/html.
>
><quote>
>3. Fragment Identifiers
>
>    The URI specification [URI] notes that the semantics of a fragment
>    identifier (part of a URI after a "#") is a property of the data
>    resulting from a retrieval action, and that the format and
>    interpretation of fragment identifiers is dependent on the media type
>    of the retrieval result.
>
>    For documents labeled as text/html, the fragment identifier
>    designates the correspondingly named element; any element may be
>    ^^^^^^^^^^
>    named with the "id" attribute, and A, APPLET, FRAME, IFRAME, IMG and
>    MAP elements may be named with a "name" attribute.  This is described
>    in detail in [HTML40] section 12.
></quote>
>
>"designates", "denotes" not sure if there is a fine difference there.

No, that will do. I'm convinced. (Damn.)

Pat

>
>
>Stuart
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