- From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:02:53 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
/ Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> was heard to say:
|> Uh... it said 'circle or spline'; if it meant circle element,
|> it should have said so.
|
| Fine. But the XPointer specification says it addresses elements. So the
| architecture document is at odds with the XPointer specification.
|
| * http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr/#bare-names
I think we can finesse that point as follows:
For instance, if the representation is an HTML document, the
fragment identifier designates a hypertext anchor. If the
^^^^^^
representation is an XML document, the fragment identifier
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
designates an element. In the case of a graphics format, a URI
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
reference might designate a circle or spline. In the case of RDF, a
a URI reference can designate anything, be it abstract (e.g., a
dream) or concrete (e.g., my car). The plain text media type does
not define semantics for fragment identifiers.
Be seeing you,
norm
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