[spec] What to do of fragments when there is a redirection

[John Cowan]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:51 PM Philip Linde <linde.philip at gmail.com> wrote:


> It might be more robust to define the fragment as referring to the
> first heading line that has the fragment content as a prefix, but
> that's still prone to break with document changes.
>

Even HTML fragments break if their referents are deleted.  Nothing is
completely immune.

> For a good balance, one might have the fragment be a an exact match of
> the heading line you refer to
>

That's reasonable, but I think a prefix match would suffice; that way you
aren't tempted to make headings overly short in order to keep fragments
small.



John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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