- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:28:08 +0000
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>
I think I should have known this. Thanks for the explanation. #g -- At 10:27 AM 1/23/03 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >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 ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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