- From: Ivan Herman via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 10:30:48 +0000
- To: public-annotation@w3.org
> On 5 Feb 2016, at 20:30, Rob Sanderson <notifications@github.com> wrote: > > From https://www.w3.org/annotation/track/issues/7 <https://www.w3.org/annotation/track/issues/7> > Is it possible, and if not is it desirable, to be able to validate the values of FragmentSelectors against the specification that it is claimed to conform to? > > For example, if a Selector claims that it conforms to the text/plain fragment syntax, and it is actually random characters, is it (a) possible to detect, and (b) is there anything that we need to do? > > My proposal is that this is an implementation concern, and that given the conformsTo link, it would be possible to construct a validation suite. Thus we should close #7 <https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/7> (in the W3C tracker) and this one. > > Let alone the fact that we are open ended, ie, new fragment definitions come to the fore; meaning that we never have a fully compliant implementation if this becomes part of the core requirements and tests. Ie, I think this should be closed without further ado -- GitHub Notification of comment by iherman Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/148#issuecomment-180733071 using your GitHub account
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