Re: 3023 update (was Re: Agenda TAG Telcon: 8th Nov 2004)

On Nov 16, 2004, at 7:03 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

>> I oppose this, at least partly on the grounds of absence of 
>> use-cases.  Can someone provide some scenarios where this would be 
>> helpful?  -Tim
>
> If it were possible to use XPointers as fragment IDs, I would be able 
> to give unique URI references to the articles in the Cafe au Lait and 
> Cafe con Leche RSS feeds. Currently some people are complaining 
> because I reuse one URI for several items.

That's only if you serve it as text/xml or application/xml, which I 
assume you don't.  I assume you serve it as something useful, for 
example text/html or application/xhtml+xml (I'm writing this on an 
airplane so can't check).  In either of those cases, the language comes 
with a well-defined way to use fragment IDs.  This is precisely the 
reason I'm pushing back - it's only useful in the case where something 
is served as */xml, and when I observe that in the wild, it's usually 
an error (e.g. RSS feeds) which is cheerfully ignored by the receiving 
software anyhow.

XML is a meta-language.  The reason it exists is so that you can define 
languages, and when you define a language you typically also provide a 
#frag-id syntax to go with it.  -Tim

Received on Friday, 19 November 2004 23:13:22 UTC