Re: Namespace error

> Some implementors take that view, but the W3C specs generally cite RFC 2396,
> or more recently RFC 3986, which contain a more formal definition of the
> permitted syntax, and also some semantic rules. Thus c:\abc.xml is not a
> valid URI because the "\" character is disallowed, while c:/abc.xml is not a
> valid URI because no-one has registered a URI scheme named "c".

Agreed. Try any of the following (depends on implementation):

a)  file:/c:/abc.xml
b)  file:/c/abc.xml
c)  file:///c:/abc.xml
d)  file:///c/abc.xml

(a) and (b) have given me the best results, but it really depends.

Cheers,
Jeff Rafter

Received on Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:06:09 UTC