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From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
> At 1:26 PM +1100 3/6/02, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> >A SYSTEM identifier in an entity declaration can be any URI.
> >All that would be needed was a version of XML to say "interpret
> >XPointers".
>
> Umm, no you can't do that. Section 4.2.2 of the XML spec (2nd edition) states:
>
> It is an error for a fragment identifier (beginning with a #
> character) to be part of a system identifier.
>
> This pretty effectively rules out the possibility of using fragment
> identifiers whether XPointers or otherwise. (I suppose this is one of
> those annoying not necessarily fatal, not necessarily unfatal errors
> that is neither a well-formedness error nor a validity error, but I
> certainly wouldn't recommend counting on that.)
Changing that # restriction would be part of saying "interpret XPointers".
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
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