- From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:49:52 -0700
- To: "'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
If on Unix, you would indeed say file:///home/ht/mymasterpiece.xml. If on MS Windows, it would be file://\home\ht\mymasterpiece.xml. Or at least that's how I read the spec. --Andrew Layman AndrewL@microsoft.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Henry S. Thompson [SMTP:ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 1997 4:04 PM > To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org > Subject: trivia, but it's a niggle > > Have you looked carefully at RFC 1738 lately (URLs)? > > 1) There is no production there for URLchar. If I had to guess, I'd > guess we want the production for xchar (not helpfully named, is it?). > > 2) There's not much there about relative references, is there :-( > > 3) Unless I can't decode their semi-bnf correctly, the syntax we all > use for file URLs is actually bogus, namely > > file:/home/ht/mymasterpiece.xml > > As I read the relevant productions, we should be saying > > file:///home/ht/mymasterpiece.xml > > Do we care? Does anyone? > > 4) Is > > /home/ht/mymasterpiece.xml > > a valid relative URL if the base is a file? > > I.e. is <!doctype foo SYSTEM '/home/ht/xml/foo.dtd'> valid XML? > > ht
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