- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 05:48:11 -0400
- To: "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> >Incidentally is there a canonical base URI for a file on my filesystem >(say /users/davidc/file.xml)? > >file://openmath.nag.co.uk/users/davidc/file.xml > >is one possibility, but there are others including using localhost. That (full DNS name) is best because it protects against the URI being interpreteded accidentally on another system. However, in practice many systems don't bother to or want to know thir own names and so just use file:///users/davidc/file.xml When this is being done by an XML processor on a given machine then so long as it is done consistently it won't matter which is done. It was of course not an accident that unix pathnames are valid relative URIs when used with a base UI of the present working directory with a trailing slash. Tim
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