Escaping and Encoding of reserved URI characters

• From: David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:33:53 -0800
• To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
• Message-ID: <CAAWM5Tw6UPb+pHZ7=Zj6pQy0N=iXpCnQkAif2DQ6ZvECyAztXg@mail.gmail.com>

Reading <http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/#escaping>, I am left
with the impression that the number sign (#), percent sign (%), and
square bracket characters ('[', ']') do NOT need to be escaped in a
fragment identifier subscribing to the XPointer Framework.

Have I understood this correctly? Does XPointer Framework actually
recommend a fragment identifier syntax that contradicts RFC 2396 and
its revision RFC 3986?

Specifically, I am concerned about the unescaped use of '#' inside of
fragment identifiers.

Thank you,

David Sheets

Received on Friday, 18 January 2013 05:53:37 UTC