- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:42:04 -0400
- To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- CC: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
Jonathan Borden wrote: > But RFC 2396 does state: "1.4 Hierarchical URI and Relative Forms > An absolute identifier refers to a resource independent of the context in > which the identifier is used. " so the implication is that "absolutizing" a > URI is more than merely prepending the base. Hey, thanks for pointing that out. I had missed it entirely. It looks as though the definition I proposed earlier: ``A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. A URI is absolute, i.e., its meaning does not depend on the context in which it appears.'' is all right after all. Paul Abrahams
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