[whatwg] XPointer

Jim Ley jim.ley at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 04:41:35 PST 2004


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:59:18 +0100, Laurens Holst
<lholst at students.cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> What about requiring XPointer support in UA's? Would certainly make
> linking to a point inside another document a whole lot easier, as
> opposed to having to rely on the document author's application of ID's
> on every section.
> 
> Just a (small) thought.

XPointer like stuff is problematical in HTML, having research HTML
Pointer before (see wai-er lists) you could do it, but we'd need to
define an html-pointer too.

Worth having though sure.

Jim.



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