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Re: more QName madness

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: more QName madness
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@o...>
• Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:16:11 -0500
• References: <r01050400-1022-F445E1A2F9A711D6B9FF0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>

Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
> >I think no one would object to this solution with the exception of
> >IANA, which would have the job of actually maintaining the registry.
> >IANA is overworked and underfunded.
>
> I'm not convinced that the problem is large enough to require IANA
> activity.  MIME Media Type registrations already go through IANA, and
> have associated RFCs which define fragment identifiers.  In some sense,
> the IETF already has this problem well-covered for most cases.

Yes, the way I think about it is that anyone registering a media type of the
form:

application/foo+xml

might define a fragement identifier syntax which uses the suggested syntax
as in
http://www.rddl.org/fragment-syntax which is dated but might be updated
given the recent work in XPointer.

Ultimately the syntax used for fragment identifiers is media type dependent,
XPointer provides a solution for application/xml (and an extension
mechanism), so ultimately if you are willing to go to the trouble to define
your own media type, you can have whatever syntax you like. I am not sure
that XPointer *prevents* you for doing that but if it does, then *you* (and
your coauthors) might change that by modifying
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt appropriately. Perhaps RFC 3023 is due
for an updating (concerning the fragment identifier syntax and semantics)
now that XPointer has made more progress.

Jonathan

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