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Re: MIME types and fragment identifiers in HTML and XML

1999-10-27 17:33:23


Larry Masinter wrote:

I still have fundamental questions.  Do fragments identified by fragment
identifiers have media types?  If so, who specifies the media types?

We're making up things about fragment identifiers. The only existing
ones are the ones that work with HTML, 

Actually there are others, including ones that work with SMIL, SVG, and
WebCGM.

and *those* certainly don't
identify things with media types. 

That part is certainly true. To process the fragment (client-side
specialiser) one must first retrieve and dispatch the entire document,
according to it's media type as a whole, before then being able to point
to or position oneself at the particular fragment in question.

--
Chris