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> 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. Not even validation, name is CDATA not ID in HTML. (That's ID in the XML/SGML sense, but the i-word still keeps coming up as what really we are talking about is fragment identifiers in uri references) > If it's not HTML, who cares? You might care if it's pdf and you are using acrobat or equivalently you are using your standard browser and it hands the file over to acrobat as it's application/pdf. If the fragment identifier is #foo acrobat will understand, if it is #xpointer(//*[@id='foo]) then it won't. The point is that by using a "plain" URI fragment identifier you can publish a uri reference that works whatever mime type is published from the uri. Thus there are advantages in making this plain syntax work for as large a range of documents as possible. In most mime types that have support for fragment identifiers at all, this syntax iss either the only or most widely used syntax. But for XML the situation is reversed and the plain fragment identier can only be reliably used with documents that declare ids in the internal subset. The idea of the discussion surely is to see whether there is a way to extend the range of documents for which these fragment identifiers may be used. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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