Re: Preparing for XPointer

[Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx>]

Mark Baker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In working on the registration of application/xhtml+xml, one of the
> issues was how to best handle a possible transition to XPointer.
> 
> During that thought experiment, it occurred to me that we should
> be watching +xml registrations to ensure that, where possible,
> "#foo" syntax is reserved for identifying fragments labelled with
> an ID (or http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#id) type attribute of
> value "foo".

Yes.

And other schems for example #xpty(foo) or #xpath(foo) or #bar(foo)
would be clearly distinguishable.

> 
> This would ensure that XPointer could be be retrofitted into
> 3023 later and apply to all */xml and */*+xml types.

Yes.

-- 
Chris