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Richard Tobin wrote: > > > i had understood the file scheme to always require a host > > Definitely not - RFC1738 says: > > As a special case, <host> can be the string "localhost" or the empty > string; this is interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is > being interpreted'. > I wasn't referring to this. > It does not authorize omitting the // too as in file:/dev/null. This is the issue. > On > the other hand, the example(s) you quote from the test suite uses it as > the system id for a notation, which is not required to be dereferenced > by the XML parser and whose use is implementation defined. The same > goes for the use of "scheme:" and "d:", which appear in the system IDs > of unparsed entities. > Which is to say, that any constraints on the the content of a system identifier should not be taken to apply to those identifiers which belong to an unparsed entity?
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