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

Tim Bray 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:  [prince-of-clarity snipped]
Me too, me too.  But that's not what Paul said.

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