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Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?

• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:52:01 +0100
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* John Cowan wrote:
>To clarify, the term "URI" includes only absolute URLs and URNs, and
>excludes relative URLs as well as fragment identifiers.

Section 2 of RFC 1866 clearly distinguishes "absolute URI" ("a URI in
absolute form") and "URI" and explicitly states "URIs in common practice
include Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Relative URLs". Could you
please cite an RFC that clearly invalidates RFC 1866 in this regard?

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