Re: [dgd@cs.bu.edu: BOS confusion (analysis; suggestion to resolve Newcomb/Bryan conflict)] from Terry Allen on 1997-01-03 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from January 1997)

From: Terry Allen <tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:45:57 -0800 (PST)
To: gtn@ebt.com, w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
Message-Id: <199701031945.LAA14732@ishtar.fsc.fujitsu.com>

Gavin writes:

>I have no problem with the # hack being used by servers that
can process it. I do not think it should be standardised.     

Too late.  It is standardized by the URL specification as a
symbol terminating the URL and preceding a format-specific
fragment address.  You will *have* to specify what that
addressing means for XML documents; you have no say over
what it means for other formats.

Regards,
    Terry Allen    Fujitsu Software Corp.    tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com
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 which we soon find outselves obliged to destroy?" - Benjamin Franklin
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Received on Friday, 3 January 1997 14:47:30 UTC