Re: A new proposal (was: Re: which layer for URI processing?) from Paul W. Abrahams on 2000-05-26 (xml-uri@w3.org from May 2000)

From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:57:50 -0400
To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
CC: "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Message-ID: <392EBB1E.640F3EB8@valinet.com>

John Cowan wrote:

> There are no "relative URIs".  There are relative URI references, but
> string-equality for URI references is neither necessary nor sufficient
> to make the URI references identify the same resource.

Appendix A of 2396 says there are relative URIs - or at least a nonterminal called
``relativeURI''.

Paul Abrahams

Received on Friday, 26 May 2000 13:58:02 UTC