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Tom Passin wrote: >The RFC (RFC 1738) defines them quite clearly, except for possibly the use >of the colon after a drive letter ("c:"). Yes, the drive letter is the non-obvious point. (Though to be pedantic, what RFC1738 says is that the path part of the URL is a hierarchical directory path, not that it necessarily corresponds directly to the hierarchy in the filesystem. I suppose you *could* use backslashes (perhaps escaped) and get a very flat and useless hierarchy.) >So according to the RFC, the following are legal: > >file://localhost/c:/xml/xsl.bat >file:///c:/xml/xsl.bat I had always supposed (until I looked at the RFC) that things like file:/foo/bar were legal, since that's what Netscape gives me on Unix when I open a file. I can't find any justification for it; is there a generic URI rule anywhere that says a URI with no //host part is equivalent to the same with an empty string as the host? Thanks, -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. "The Internet is really just a series of bottlenecks joined by high speed networks." - Sam Wilson *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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