Re: XML Base

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Dave Beckett wrote:

> >>>Jeremy Carroll said:
>
> <snip/>
> > I am arguing a catch 22, if you want to delete these, it is because some
> > people disagree with them, which is why we need them. I am happy with
> > deleting the ones that nobody disagrees with.
> <snip/>
>
> The only one that wasn't approved was test017/error001 and that is
> because I think the algorithm for resolving the URI was wrong in the
> proposed test017.nt
>
> I think resolving
>   base URI "mailto:Jeremy_Carroll@hp.com"
>   with URI "relfile"
> will give
>   URI "mailto:relfile"
> not
>   URI "mailto:/refile"
>
> because mailto is a non-hierachical URI scheme (does not start
> mailto:/ so can be detected by apps).

Isn't there a canonical answer for this in the definition of the mailto:
prefix? If not, this needs flagging up for TAG or appropriate body to
find an answer to (even if it's "undefined") and the resolution of this
changed to match.


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Received on Friday, 22 March 2002 05:56:20 UTC