- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:15:12 +0100
- To: <Farid.Mahini@L-3com.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> I would have thought that any valid file name can also be > considered an URI Some implementors take that view, but the W3C specs generally cite RFC 2396, or more recently RFC 3986, which contain a more formal definition of the permitted syntax, and also some semantic rules. Thus c:\abc.xml is not a valid URI because the "\" character is disallowed, while c:/abc.xml is not a valid URI because no-one has registered a URI scheme named "c". http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.html However, the extent to which different W3C specs require or permit implementations to enforce these rules is thoroughly moot - it's one of the weakest areas of W3C standardization, in my view. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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