Re: XML Base

>>>Jan Grant said:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Dave Beckett wrote:
> > 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.

  The mailto URL scheme
  ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2368.txt

Does not mention how relative URIs are handled, however it remains a
non-hierarchical URI scheme (everything after the : is opaque) and
the above resolution I think is correct.

Dave