Preparing for XPointer

Mark Baker <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:18:29 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.xml-mime
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi all,

In working on the registration of application/xhtml+xml, one of the
issues was how to best handle a possible transition to XPointer.

During that thought experiment, it occurred to me that we should
be watching +xml registrations to ensure that, where possible,
"#foo" syntax is reserved for identifying fragments labelled with
an ID (or http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#id) type attribute of
value "foo".

This would ensure that XPointer could be be retrofitted into
3023 later and apply to all */xml and */*+xml types.

I would expect this to be the case anyhow, but I thought it worth
mentioning.

MB
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Mark Baker, CSO, Planetfred.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.
[email protected]