Re: Issue-base-param: do we need the parameter?

I agree with the main points in Chime's message.
One nit...

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:43 -0500, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote:
[...]
> >  <rdf:Description rdf:about=".">
> >
> > Will be a reference to the resource identified by the base URI of the
> > source document.
> 
> Yes, though the '.' is redundant with regards to URI base resolution.

Well, actually '.' refers to the base URI with any final path
segment stripped, a la 'cwd' in unix:

connolly@dirk:~/w3ccvs/WWW/2000/10/swap$ python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Oct 20 2006, 00:23:25)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061015 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-16.1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import uripath
>>> uripath.join("http://example/a/b/c/d", "")
'http://example/a/b/c/d'
>>> uripath.join("http://example/a/b/c/d", ".")
'http://example/a/b/c/'


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