- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 20:03:30 +0100 (BST)
- To: jcowan@reutershealth.com
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> Aha! So *you* are the mythical Real User! Are any of your documents > available on the public Web? If not, could you make them so, possibly > with some of the content removed? Well I only ever use relative URI in XSL stylesheets for the purposes outlined in my last message. I'm sure the archives of xsl-list will have examples (an embarrassing proportion of that archive contains my examples:-) Actually broken is too strong a word in this case as all uses are in a single file so would still work if all made absolute, but my feelings about this usage would change and as i commented I would remove all such relative uri from my stylesheets if the namespace rec was changed to the absolute interpretation (or xpath implementations started to implement the xpath absolute interpretation). More broken would be my TeX based XML typesetting software. TeX doesn't really believe in all this new fangled web stuff, and doesn't have the faintest idea what the base URI of its input is. So it could not itself make relative URI absolute. I'd have to add a pre-processor to do this although in practice I'd probably just not support relative URI in documents. I don't think I am your real user, and as I just noticed, I am not sure Microsoft is either, but there must be someone out there, surely? David
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