- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:07:50 +0000
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 12:06 PM 3/13/02 +0000, Dave Beckett wrote: >Isn't this implying (since it is an error case) that RDF applications >have to validate URI-refs or at least know some non-hierarchical uri >schemes. I understand RDF apps need to do relative URI resolution >but until the xmlbase test cases, we never checked that they worked >right. > >We seem to be sort-of generating test cases for other specifications >(RFC 2396, xml base) which we generally shouldn't be doing :) IIRC, RFC 2396 is crafted so that the non-hierarchical schemes can be detected syntactically; i.e. the base URI doesn't start with a "/" immediately following the schema name. If the scheme name is followed immediately by a '/' then it's hierarchical. #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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