Re: ISSUE-81 (resource vs representation)

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > What do you mean by "there's no good way to do a cross reference"? How
> > > about
> > > something like
> > > 
> > >  Section 5.1.2 of [RFC2616]
> > > 
> > > (assuming you want Request-URI)?
> > 
> > That wouldn't be a version-independent reference.
> > 
> > (What HTML5 is referencing here is "the address of the resource from 
> > which the Request-URI was obtained", a term from RFC 2616's 14.36 
> > Referer section. If it was an HTML spec, I could just like straight to 
> > the ID of the term, but at best I can give the section number and 
> > name, which is very brittle.)
> 
> I assume that an ID is better than a section number, but is there really 
> *any* guarantee that IDs will survive revisions of W3C specs?

No guarantee, but it's more likely than a section number.

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