Re: [ALL] xml:base and URIs with hashes

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:
>> I remember vaguely Jeremy Carroll saying that hashes are actually
>> allowed in fragment ids ... is this right or wrong?
> 
> You have to %xx-escape them, http://example.org/## is not allowed.

I may have said that; but if I did I was wrong.
In a URI or IRI only a single # is allowed and it separates the main URI 
from the fragment.

Personally, I prefer omitting any # and fragment, from an xml:base 
because it is simply confusing.

Jeremy

Received on Monday, 23 January 2006 08:36:48 UTC