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

William Orr will at worrbase.com
Wed Dec 23 22:22:25 GMT 2020


Wouldn't this be dependent on the other discussion of IRIs, since gemtext can have arbitrary unicode? Also would require clients to NFC normalize the prefix/heading lines before doing the matching.

23 dic. 2020 19:40:00 John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>:

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