RE: An unfulfilled requirement maybe?

"search path"? What is that? That's the first time I hear about it, and I
found no info on Wikipedia about it.

Do you mean something like relative path resolution? If that, then, well...
what are relative URIs for? The path to the file to be executed should
probably be relative to the CWD anyway.

If you mean something like varying paths based on an environmental variable
(which as far as I'm aware is not possible directly from CLIs), then this
only means the syntax for environmental variables should be usable in URIs
too (which practically means they should be AVTs or something like it).

If it's something else... could you explain it and/or provide a link to a
document that explains it please?

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From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:45 PM
To: Vasil Rangelov
Cc: public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org
Subject: Re: An unfulfilled requirement maybe?

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I think the idea of using file: IRIs for the 'cwd' option has a lot to
recommend it, but I'm not sure the same can be said for the 'command'
option.  Most (all?) modern operating systems support a notion of
search path for executables, but using URIs/IRIs for the 'command'
option would _either_ mean that the search path could never be
appealed to, _or_ would require some special syntax to avoid
resolution against the operative base URI. . .

ht
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