- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 22:41:00 -0400
- Cc: "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Coming back into this thread late, but I think there may be a point being missed: A relative URI reference, by definition, is a reference to a _family_ of URIs, whose only common feature is that they have the same suffix. If you use this syntax, it explicitly means you are willing to accept whichever member of that family happens to be in scope for the current base-URI context. If you can't deal with that -- if it matters to you that ..\mypicture.gif may display a movie star in one context and a jackass in another without warning you, or as in Tim's chemical-plant case your process has a critical dependency on resolving to the right URI -- you had no business going anywhere near a relative reference in the first place. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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