- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:42:53 -0400
- To: <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Noah Mendelsohn Sent: Tuesday, 2010 June 22 21:21 To: MURATA Makoto; Chris Lilley Cc: www-tag@w3.org Subject: Generic processing of Fragment IDs in RFC 3023bis This is a comment on RFC 3023 bis [1]. At its recent face-to-face meeting in London, the TAG discussed in some detail the provisions in RFC 3023bis for generic processing of fragment identifiers when Web "representations" have content types of the form: application/xxxx+xml. Specifically, the current draft of 3023bis allows processors to interpret such fragment identifiers as if the Content-type had been application/xml [2]. We agree that such generic processing is desirable in principle, but unfortunately, media type application/rdf+xml is widely deployed, and its specification mandates different treatment of fragment identifiers. In the likely case where URIs for resources with application/rdf+xml representations follow that specification, generic processing will lead to incorrect results. There may be other deployed media types for which similar problems arise. With some reluctance, the TAG therefore suggests that fragment identifier interpretation be removed from the generic processing list in section Y.Y [2], and that related descriptive text be updated appropriately. In fact, it may be useful to provide some warning of the risks of generic processing of fragment identifiers. In case it's of interest, the TAG did discuss some other possible resolutions to this problem, including a suggestion that RDF/XML be changed to a media type of application/rdf. On balance, we feel that the approach suggested here is likely to be the best way forward. Thank you very much. Noah Mendelsohn for the W3C Technical Architecture Group [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/02/son-of-3023/draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-04.ht ml [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/02/son-of-3023/draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-04.ht ml#naming
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