- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:10:03 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
The problem of how relative URI references should be treated is, as anyone not entirely comatose must have noticed, a vexing one. It's a little like the toy designed by a psychologist to teach infants about the nature of the modern world: any way you put it together it is wrong (or at least not entirely right). But to have relative URI references -- an uncommon though not nonexistent case -- drive the entire namespace mechanism seems to me to be a great mistake, a case of the tail wagging the dog. I think it's important to get the common case right first -- and although views may vary as to what "right" is, I think that's the literal interpretation as it is in the current version of the namespace spec. Once we've fixed our interpretation of the common case, we can then set it aside while dealing with the uncommon case. Personally, I like James Clark's suggestion of using a standardized base for relative URIs. Paul Abrahams
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