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 -- Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center elm @ east.sun.comReceived on Tuesday, 16 May 2000 13:40:56 UTC
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