Re: Fixed base

"David G. Durand" wrote:

> We can almost entirely preserve literal comparison by using a base
> URI that is the null string. In this case, relative URI references
> absolutize to syntactically illegal absolute URIs. This means that
> it's crystal clear that they aren't suitable for retrieval, since
> they're not legal absolure URIs.

I suspect that the basic resolveURIReference routine would plotz
on an empty base URI, though.

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