Richard Cyganiak wrote:

> I don't really want to get into yet another hash vs. slash debate,
> but I do want to point out that it is possible to get what you want
> with option 1, though it requires a tiny bit of extra work. Example
> Apache configuration:
>
> Redirect 303 /NewsCodes/ http://www.iptc.org/docs/newscodes.html#
>
> This will transparently redirect
> http://www.iptc.org/NewsCodes/123456
> to http://www.iptc.org/docs/newscodes.html#123456. HTTP redirects
> are hardly rocket science.

This:
http://www.iptc.org/docs/newscodes.html#123456
is not legal, as "123456" is an illegal fragment identifier.

Also, not every maintainer of a taxonomy has control over the
behaviour of the server hosting the taxonomy.

Misha Wolf
News Standards Manager, Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/
Vice Chair, News Architecture WP, IPTC, http://www.iptc.org/

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