- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:38:14 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Ian Jacobs reported: > Issue fragmentInXML-28 was been accepted by the TAG at their 28 > Oct 2002 teleconference. > > Do fragment identifiers refer to a syntactice element (at least for > XML content), or can they refer to abstractions? I'm not sure that question is properly phrased as a simple 'or'. It's not clear at all (per [1]) that fragment identifiers can refer to a syntactic element, nor is it clear (per [2]) that it is plain how they could precisely specify how to get to that element. It seems reasonably clear that fragment identifiers could identify abstractions if the representation into which they pointed specified support for fragment identifiers as pointing to abstractions, though that's kind of intriguing on its own. It seems answering the question "to what do fragment identifiers refer, and how?" is probably a better question than the version above with its non-exclusive and perhaps unlikely answers. [1] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2002OctDec/ 0039.html , noting particularly point 4 [2] - http://www.w3.org/2002/11/04-tag-summary#frags, [Norm] Yes, I could really use some more precise fragment identifiers for these references. ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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