Fragment identifier

A fragment identifier is a short Character string (computer science) of character (computing)s that refers to a resource (computer science) that is subordinate to another, primary resource. The primary resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), and the fragment identifier points to the subordinate resource. Typically, the fragment identifier is appended to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL —a type of URI) for a Hypertext document and is meant to identify a portion of that document.

A fragment identifier is defined by RFC 3986 as an optional component of a URI reference , and it must conform to a certain syntax. The syntax requires that the fragment identifier be separated from the rest of the URI reference by a # (number sign) character. The separator is not considered part of the fragment identifier.

=Examples=

*In .

*In , returning all XML elements named Rube from the document named http://www.foobar.org/schmoo.xml . It does not matter if the document is actually accessible at that location on the Internet.