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Re: Fixed base

From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:39:03 -0400
Message-ID: <394FC857.5F91E2F@reutershealth.com>
To: "David G. Durand" <david@dynamicDiagrams.com>
CC: xml-uri@w3.org
"David G. Durand" wrote:

> That would be bug, though, as the RFC is quite clear about that case.

How's that again?

A base URI is necessarily absolute (section 5.1), and an absolute URI
necessarily contains a scheme (BNF), so the empty string cannot be
a base URI.  I see no indication that the resolution algorithm is
meant to work when the base URI is syntactically invalid.

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