- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:43:01 -0800
- To: James Whitescarver <jim@eies.njit.edu>
- Cc: tm@rasips1.rasip.etf.hr, uri@bunyip.com, www-talk@w3.org
> 1. The use of ## for special anchors seems reasonable.
Use of more than one "#" character is illegal and not desirable
in the current URI syntax.
We have discussed this same topic many times on the www-talk and uri
lists, and the conclusion is always the same:
1) fragment identifiers are dependent on the media type of the
entity retrieved;
2) fragment identifier syntax should be registered with the media
type registration;
3) the "=" character should be used as an indicator for a non-name
syntax, as in
#name (as in current HTML use)
#id=fred
#bytes=200-254
#words=20-24
#line=4
#chapter=14
#page=3
The only thing that prevents this right now is the uncertainty about
how to register this along with a media type, and some volunteer to
look at all the current media types and define a list of appropriate
ones for the initial registry.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Tuesday, 28 November 1995 22:45:58 UTC