- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:39:03 -0400
- To: "David G. Durand" <david@dynamicDiagrams.com>
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
"David G. Durand" wrote: > That would be bug, though, as the RFC is quite clear about that case. How's that again? A base URI is necessarily absolute (section 5.1), and an absolute URI necessarily contains a scheme (BNF), so the empty string cannot be a base URI. I see no indication that the resolution algorithm is meant to work when the base URI is syntactically invalid. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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