- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:39:59 -0400
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- CC: abrahams@acm.org, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
John Cowan wrote:
> "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
>
> > It would be better to define ``absolute'' in semantic terms, i.e., not merely in terms of
> > its syntactic form.
>
> I don't think that any such definition can exist that is both correct and
> complete.
If that's really the case, then perhaps we should drop any mention of `absolute' from the
definition I proposed and just stick with the first sentence (which comes from the Abstract,
of course). Absoluteness, you're saying, is best thought of as a syntactic property. My
revised grammar, including the production
absoluteURI = URI
makes the point quite clear.
Paul Abrahams
Received on Friday, 26 May 2000 14:40:12 UTC