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Re: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.

• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Subject: Re: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:07:16 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200111120925.JAA13778@p...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
• References: <9A4FC925410C024792B85198DF1E97E401C9B300@u...> <E1638Cx-0006xZ-00@s...> <200111120925.JAA13778@p...>

On Monday 12 November 2001 04:25 am, David Carlisle wrote:
> probably some others i don't know, but the principle is the same,
> that the syntax after the # depends on the mime type of whatever is
> returned.

Right. That last point is the important one for me... the syntax can be 
whatever one wished for the media type.

> > I've ever seen ID attributes used in HTML is in the context of an
> > anchor.
>
> Yes exactly that is the semantics of fragment ids in text/html, that's
> the whole point.

My point here is that the linking is scoped to <a> tags, which disambiguate 
the context sufficiently that ID-ness isn't needed, except perhaps for 
validation.

> http://www.example.com/aaaa.xml#foo
>
> and what you get sent back is an HTML 2.0 file (because you are using
> Xmosaic 1.0) then #foo will be interpretted as an HTML fragment id and
> mosaic will scroll to the point marked <a name="foo"/>
> If on the other hand you request
>
> http://www.example.com/aaaa.xml#any-xml-specific-fragment-syntax
>
> then you will still get the same HTML file back but you can't make sense
> of the fragment id.

If it's not HTML, who cares?

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