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Re: MIME types and fragment identifiers in HTML and XML

1999-10-27 06:43:31
MURATA Makoto wrote:

I still have fundamental questions.  Do fragments identified by fragment
identifiers have media types?

No.  The purpose of a media type (type, subtype, and parameters) is to give
just enough information to make a bunch of bytes (whether in a file or on
a wire) dispatchable to the appropriate interpreter.  To interpret a
fragment, one has to have already determined the media type of the context.

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