- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:41:59 +0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 17:49 29/05/97 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote: >If on Unix, you would indeed say file:///home/ht/mymasterpiece.xml. Yes. >If >on MS Windows, it would be file://\home\ht\mymasterpiece.xml. That's not what RFC 1738 says: A file URL takes the form: file://<host>/<path> where <host> is the fully qualified domain name of the system on which the <path> is accessible, and <path> is a hierarchical directory path of the form <directory>/<directory>/.../<name>. For example, a VMS file DISK$USER:[MY.NOTES]NOTE123456.TXT might become <URL:file://vms.host.edu/disk$user/my/notes/note12345.txt> As a special case, <host> can be the string "localhost" or the empty string; this is interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is being interpreted'.
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