Document Fragments and XPointer
In HTML documents, the process of addressing a specific part of the document involves using anchors. This can be a useful mechanism, but it does have significant limitations.
Caution
 | Immediately before this writing, the XPointer specification was split into four W3C Working Drafts. The description that follows is based on those drafts and, therefore, is potentially subject to change. |
Let’s suppose that you want to link to the HTML document shown in Listing 14.5. It includes many br tags to space out the anchors.
Listing 14.5. Anchors.html: An HTML Document with Anchors
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML ... |
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