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Re: XPointer crisis

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• Subject: Re: XPointer crisis
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:38:13 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200202012136.g11LaZj26264@d...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Friday 01 February 2002 04:36 pm, Joe English wrote:
> Re: the 'xml:id' and 'xml:idattr' proposals: these sound reasonable,
> but it seems to me like an awful lot of work to specify, implement,
> and deploy just for the sake of barename fragment identifiers.

Right, they fall into the category of "specious standardization". I 
really can't see the point in standardizing a mechanism *that can 
already be used* but for which no experience exists.

I say standardize only the bare minimum necessary... 

• References:
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    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@s...>
  • Re: XPointer crisis
    • From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>

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