- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:30:16 -0400
- To: abrahams@acm.org
- CC: "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > > (There is a hack in RFC 2396 that allows deprecated relative > > URI references like "http:foo", meaning the same as "foo", provided that > > the base URI uses the "http:" scheme also. If not, "http:foo" is undefined.) Specifically in clause 5.2, step 3, paragraph 2. > It would be better to define ``absolute'' in semantic terms, i.e., not merely in terms of > its syntactic form. I don't think that any such definition can exist that is both correct and complete. -- 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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