Re: [dita] MIME type for DITA - fragment identifier issue

[Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com]

Erik Hennum <ehennum@us.ibm.com> wrote on 14/05/2008
08:18:02 AM:
> To conform to XPointer, the subelement reference would likely need
> to be something like "#dita(topicID/subelementID)"

Worse, it would need to be namespaced, because unqualified
scheme names are reserved for W3C recommendations [3.3 of XPointer Framework
recommendation], requiring a fragment reference like
  #xmlns(dita=http://example.dita.org/)dita:dita(topicID/subelementID)
Ick.

It would at least not possibly clash with the existing
syntax, which doesn't allow parentheses.

I agree with Erik's gut feeling: we may as well jump
on the rather large bandwagon of implementations that are ignoring XPointer.

-- 
Deborah Pickett
Information Architect, Moldflow Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com