- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:27:30 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>
On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 10:28 US/Eastern, Graham Klyne wrote: > At 08:24 AM 1/23/03 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> rel(u, base) and abs(u, bae) >> >> and to point out that you can use abs(rel(u, base), base) for u in all >> circumstances. > > All? > > base= http://www.w3.org/ > u= http://mmm.m3.net/xyz > > What, then, is rel(u,base)? > //mmm.m3.net/xyz Note there is more than one rel(,) function, as sometimes there are choices. When two URIs share nothing of the path, then a root-relative URI or a base-relative URIs are optional ways of expressing. A lot of systems would not bother in your case to save the 5 characters. In some cases rel(a, base) = a > #g > > > ------------------- > Graham Klyne > <GK@NineByNine.org>
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