- From: Clark C. Evans <cce@clarkevans.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 23:03:46 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- cc: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > XPath explicitly calls for absolutization before comparison. Gosh. I have read the spec many times... and have consistently missed this sentance in the specification. I feel very dumb at the moment. I guess I had never expected the XPath spec to *redefine* the specific definitions (of identity) laid out so clearly in the namespace specification. Luckly, I don't think I am alone. I tried out relative namespaces on XT -- James Clark's software does not seem to be doing this absolutization; but perhaps my testing is such that I don't quite understand what would reasonably be absolutized or how it would be absolutized. Does *any* XSLT processor (implementing XPath) support relative URI absolutization? Slightly Shocked and a tad bit Confused, Clark
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