- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:47:43 -0800
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Williams, Stuart wrote: >>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. > > Does 100% of the time include the (perhaps ill-advised) use of the first of > these URIs to name an XML namespace? Namespace-processing code pretty well uniformly uses strcmp() or equivalent, so indeed, used as namespaces, these would probably be regarded as different. Blecch. Indeed, this would be ill-advised. -Tim
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