

Re: Two questions about Location

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:59:57 -0400
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To: "John Boyer" <jboyer@uwi.com>
At 21:49 99/10/12 -0700, John Boyer wrote:
 >Originally, I had thought that an empty Location (or one that starts with a
 ># fragment if we allow fragments in Location) should mean 'this' document.

John, the typical way of referring to "this document" is
        <a href="">this document</a>
This is why fragment IDs are interprated the way they are when no URI
precedes them. [1]

I believe people are speaking of what happens when you don't provide the
location element itself, then assume it is implicit to the context.

This must also be distinguished from what happens when you have a location
element but no attribute, did the DTD define a default attribute value?

In order to keep some grasp on all this optionality, I'd prefer we have
don't specify lots of optionality in the natural language nor that we rely
upon XML/DTD attribute definition defaults.


[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

4.2. Same-document References

   and a reference containing only a fragment identifier is a reference
   to the identified fragment of that document.  Traversal of such a
   reference should not result in an additional retrieval action.
   current document and should be replaced by that URI when transformed
   into a request.

Joseph Reagle Jr.   
Policy Analyst           mailto:reagle@w3.org
Received on Wednesday, 13 October 1999 15:59:59 GMT
