6. URI Fragment Identifier Representation

A JSON Pointer can be represented in a URI fragment identifier by encoding it into octets using UTF-8 [RFC3629], while percent-encoding those characters not allowed by the fragment rule in [RFC3986].

Note that a given media type needs to specify JSON Pointer as its fragment identifier syntax explicitly (usually, in its registration [RFC6838]). That is, just because a document is JSON does not imply that JSON Pointer can be used as its fragment identifier syntax. In particular, the fragment identifier syntax for application/json is not JSON Pointer.

Given the same example document as above, the following URI fragment identifiers evaluate to the accompanying values:

#            // the whole document
#/foo        ["bar", "baz"]
#/foo/0      "bar"
#/           0
#/a~1b       1
#/c%25d      2
#/e%5Ef      3
#/g%7Ch      4
#/i%5Cj      5
#/k%22l      6
#/%20        7
#/m~0n       8

6. URI Fragment Identifier Representation​

6. URI Fragment Identifier Representation