- From: Eve L. Maler <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:42:57 -0400
- To: "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 01:24 PM 5/16/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Has the empty URI reference "" a definite meaning according to the
>rules of URI syntax? In other words, does it resolve to a specific
>absolute URI, given a certain base URI?
>
>If so, that would conflict with its special interpretation as the
>value of an "xmlns" attribute.
As I understand it (from RFC 2396, Section 4.2 [1]), it refers to the
resource in which it appears -- no connection to a base URI whatsoever.
Eve
[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
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