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

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:04:37 -0500
To: tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com
CC: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
Message-Id: <199701032104.QAA10226@nathaniel.ebt>

>>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.

To rephrase: I don;t want this to be the *only* way of sub-document
adressing, and certainly not in conjunction with TEI XPTR's etc. being
whacked in there.

Received on Friday, 3 January 1997 16:33:55 UTC