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Header self-refs should use anchor names chosen by the author #1157
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This is bad in particular as the document author has only limited control about what goes into the "slugifiedName" (as the algorithm for generating it is undefined). |
As noted by @reschke,
But I'm not sure this counts as a bug since internal references still use the author-provided ( The table of contents uses the Footnotes |
It's a bug, as we want the author-provided anchors to be used. Those should be used by default (stability across revisions), and thus need to be what the readers see in the address bar (for bookmarking etc). |
Describe the issue
As pointed out by @royfielding in #1156 (comment):
As an example, the Range Requests header in RFC 9110 points to the anchor
#name-range-requests
, while the appropriate anchor to point to would be#range.requests
, as the presumably author-chosen identifier of the header's parent element:Code of Conduct
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