- From: David G. Durand <david@dynamicdiagrams.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:37:54 -0400
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 2:18 PM -0400 6/20/00, John Cowan wrote:
>"David G. Durand" wrote:
>
>> We can almost entirely preserve literal comparison by using a base
>> URI that is the null string. In this case, relative URI references
>> absolutize to syntactically illegal absolute URIs. This means that
>> it's crystal clear that they aren't suitable for retrieval, since
>> they're not legal absolure URIs.
>
>I suspect that the basic resolveURIReference routine would plotz
>on an empty base URI, though.
That would be bug, though, as the RFC is quite clear about that case.
<semi-facetious>We seem to be spending more time on philosophy than
practical issues, anyway, so why should we be disturbed by a solution
that's fine in principle, but just doesn't happen to
work.</semi-facetious>
Do you know of any implementations that do/do not fail on this?
-- David
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