Re: [uri] <none> from Roy T. Fielding on 2003-06-09 (uri@w3.org from June 2003)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:18:25 -0700
To: "Mark Thomson" <marktt@excite.com>
Cc: uri@w3.org
Message-Id: <ABDC07A4-9AD0-11D7-AC96-000393753936@apache.org>

> "A path is always defined for a URI, though the defined path may be 
> empty (zero length) or opaque (not containing any "/" delimiters)"
>
> The production for net-path says that abs-path is optional, so for a 
> URI like http://ABCD?query, we have both abs-path and rel-path 
> undefined and not empty and therefore path would be undefined. Do we 
> still have to assume that path is empty even when both abs-path and 
> rel-path are undefined ? or is the above statement from the draft 
> incorrect ?

Bummer.  The statement is correct, but I'll need to fix the ABNF so
that it always ends up with a matching production.

Thanks for the report,

....Roy

Received on Monday, 9 June 2003 23:42:45 UTC