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Re: Path Normalization Causing Issues

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:40:42 +0100
To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Cc: public-iri@w3.org
Message-ID: <7nsaj4l3kd4vg4qkdcncej0chl1erun2ot@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de> 

* Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>As ".." is an IRI, it can be normalized, which results in "". This is  
>obviously problematic. Should path segment normalization only be done  
>when there is a scheme and/or authority?

If you look at section 2.2 of RFC 3987 you find that '..' is not an IRI.
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