Re: XLink query syntax

Hello Julie-- You are looking at a very old draft of the XLink spec.  There 
are now two specs:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr

You'll also want to check out the public Linking page for additional 
information:

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Linking

The query-vs.-fragment identifier aspect of the old XLink (now pulled into 
XPointer) went away when we discovered the RFC 2396 requirements on 
languages such as this.  In XLink, you can use any URI reference, which 
includes (per 2396) any query.

Hope this helps,

         Eve

At 06:30 PM 9/28/00 -0400, Julie Eisenhard wrote:
>In section 2: locator syntax of the XLink working draft version 1.0
>(3/3/98), the use of queries in URI's is discussed as follows:
>"...information providers and authors of server software are urged to
>use queries as follows: [4] Query ::= 'XML-XPTR=' (XPointer | Name)".
>In later documents, it is specified - with no mention of special query
>syntax - that "the value of the href attribute must be a  URI reference
>as defined in IETF RFC 2396".  Can I use an URI reference that includes
>a query in the value of an href attribute just as is?
>
>Thanks for the input,
>Julie
>
>--
>Julie L. Eisenhard
>DOME Solutions
>mailto:liberty@domesolutions.com

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Eve Maler                                          +1 781 442 3190
Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center    eve.maler @ east.sun.com