- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:47:21 -0800
- To: Johannes Koch <koch@w3development.de>
- CC: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Johannes Koch wrote: > As the type of @about is URIorCURIE, and "" (empty attribute) is no > valid safe CURIE, it will be treated as a URI reference, which is to be > resolved to the current base. > > So e.g. > > "" > resolved to > http://www.example.org/foo/bar > results in > http://www.example.org/foo/ I don't think that's true: if you put <a href="">foo</a> in a document, you get the full URI http://www.example.org/foo/bar as that link. I had a similar confusion at some point, that BASE referred to the base *directory*, but in fact all browser behavior (and I believe specifications) imply that a URI value of "" is the full current URI, not just the parent directory. -Ben
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