- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:53:37 -0400
- To: Robert Hanson <robertha@zenweb.com>
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
Robert Hanson wrote: > I can't say that I have the level of competence in XML as the other posters on > this list, so please excuse me if my question is naieve... > > As far as I understand it, the string "foo:bar" is a valid URI as well as > being a valid URI Reference. It satisfies the generic URI syntax in RFC 2396. It is not a valid URI, because there is no "foo:" scheme. => So if the parser (or whatever) was to absolutize the URI, what would it do to > this URI? Nothing. > Would it think it is a reference? No. Anything beginning "xxx:" (for reasonable values of xxx) is absolute, per RFC 2396. If you want to make a relative URI reference to a resource with "foo:bar" in its name, you say "./foo:bar" instead, which is a relative URI reference and means what you want. > Would it realize that it is a complete URI? Yes. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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