- From: Jason Diamond <jason@injektilo.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:41:06 -0800
- To: <uri@w3.org>
> >It says:
> >
> >> Similarly, parsers must avoid treating "." and ".." as special when
> >> they are not complete components of a relative path.
> >>
> >> /./g = http://a/./g
> >
> /./g isn't a relative path--it starts with /.
Thanks. I missed the text in Step 5 of Section 5.2 that says
> 5) If the path component begins with a slash character ("/"), then
> the reference is an absolute-path and we skip to step 7.
I was trying to normalize the path regardless of whether the original URI
reference was relative or not.
Thanks,
Jason.
Received on Tuesday, 8 January 2002 19:44:58 UTC