- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:56:23 -0000
- To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Tim, Question of clarification: > 7. Section 4. > > As to "." and "..", I agree with TimBL that it is violently inconsistent > to restrict the special meaning of these syntaxes to the relative form > of URIs. If I am given the URI http://example.com/a/./b/../c I will > always, 100% of the time, regard that as http://example.com/a/c. I have > just verified that the first two randomly-picked web browsers I picked > in fact do this. So the assertion that this only applies to the > relative form is, I assert, simply wrong and should be removed. Does 100% of the time include the (perhaps ill-advised) use of the first of these URIs to name an XML namespace? Stuart --
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