- From: Eve L. Maler <eve.maler@east.sun.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 22:42:57 -0500
- To: Matthew Wilson <matthew@mjwilson.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
Fragment identifier languages are associated with media types, per RFC
2396. That is, we don't have any control over how XHTML is served, but if
it is served as */xml, then an XPointer is supposed to work with it. This
is just the nature of Web architecture... However, you can see the seeds
of an idea to get more flexibility in the notion of XPointer "schemes."
Eve
At 10:25 PM 11/9/00 +0000, Matthew Wilson wrote:
>I may be missing the point here, but...
>
>XPointer introduction says that it applies to
> "a resource of Internet media type text/xml or application/xml"
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xptr-20000607.html#N598
>
>XHTML is agnostic about its media type...
>
>"...general recommended MIME labeling for XML-based applications has yet
>to be resolved."
>
>and
>
>"XHTML Documents " ... "may be labeled with the Internet Media Type
>"text/html"".
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#media
>
>So XPointer may or may not be usable with XHTML, is that correct?
>
>This seems to be quite a severe shortcoming (assuming my interpretation is
>right). I think that the acceptance of XLink/XPointer technologies will be
>affected by how easily they can be added to those already existing.
>
>Matthew Wilson
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