Re: Media typs and XPointer, XLink, XPath, and XSLT

At 12:37 PM 7/13/99 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Paul Grosso wrote:
>
> > If the resource is XML, the fragment identifier is to be interpreted
> > as an XPointer.
> Yes, but what does it mean to "be XML"?  Does that simply mean
> "be a well-formed XML document", or is it also required that
> the media-type be "application/xml" or "text/xml"?  If the
> media-type is "application/vnd.foo-systems.bar", but the format
> happens to be well-formed XML, is the fragment ID necessarily
> to be interpreted as an XPointer?
How can you possibly know, in this case, whether the resource is WF
XML?  The situation seems clear to me:  If it's application/xml
or text/xml, what comes after the # is an xpointer.  If it's
anything-else/anything-else, look in the RFC for anything-else/anything-else
to see how fragment identifiers work.  That RFC might say that the 
media type happens to be XML and it might (or might not, even if it
happens to be XML) say that fragment identifiers are xpointers.

 -Tim