Re: Clarification on the 8 October 2013 candidate recommendation

> Reading the latest candidate rec, in section 3.1 there is:
> ***
> If the href attribute is absent when XML processing is specified, the
> xpointer or fragid attribute must be present. Fragment identifiers
> must not be used; their appearance is a fatal error.
> ***
>
> I was wondering if "Fragment identifiers must not be used" is not in
> conflict with the previous statement that says that xpointer or fragid
> must be present.
>
> Norm clarified for me that "Fragment identifiers" refer to values like
> "#fragment" present in the href attribute, but my initial reading was
> that "Fragment identifiers" refer to the fragid attribute just mentioned
> in the previous phrase.
>
> Maybe you want to rephrase this to avoid such confusion?


I would suggest that we clarify this in the next draft
by augmenting the last quoted sentence to read:

  Fragment identifiers must not be used in the value of the
  href attribute; their appearance there is a fatal error.

paul

Received on Monday, 28 October 2013 14:30:03 UTC