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    <bug>
          <bug_id>26205</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2014-06-26 14:15:45 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Hard to read definition: &quot;A URL&apos;s fragment is either null or a string hol...&quot;</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2014-06-27 12:06:17 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WHATWG</product>
          <component>URL</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Windows NT</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>Unsorted</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Daniel Bratell">bratell</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Anne">annevk</assigned_to>
          <cc>mike</cc>
          
          <qa_contact>sideshowbarker+urlspec</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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    <commentid>108384</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Daniel Bratell">bratell</who>
    <bug_when>2014-06-26 14:15:45 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#urls

[[
A URL&apos;s fragment
is either null or a string holding data that can be used for further processing on the
resource the remainder of the URL identifies.
]]

This definition is a bit cyclic. You have to know that the fragment and &quot;the remainder of the URL&quot; are referring to the same thing.

I think deleting the last part would make it less confusing:

------8&lt;-----
A URL&apos;s fragment is either null or a string holding data that can be used for further processing on the resource.
------&gt;8------

For an example of where the fragment identifier isn&apos;t just an id, you can see SVG where it&apos;s a small language of itself, letting you clip and scale the image.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>108387</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Anne">annevk</who>
    <bug_when>2014-06-26 17:05:36 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Remainder of the URL is actually meant to refer to the part that is not the fragment. As that bit identifies a resource, not the fragment.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>108388</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Anne">annevk</who>
    <bug_when>2014-06-26 17:06:45 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Maybe I should just drop &quot;the remainder of&quot;, although it&apos;s a tad less specific.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>108421</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Anne">annevk</who>
    <bug_when>2014-06-27 12:06:17 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>https://github.com/whatwg/url/commit/a14cafdeae68479c0b92712e9733f4626825226a</thetext>
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