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

At 12:45 1999 07 13 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.
In the one line you quoted, I was speaking imprecisely.  I think
I stated it clearly several other places several other times
previously, and I just posted another message (that agrees with
you and Tim) that I hopes makes it crystal clear yet once again.