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Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?

• To: james.anderson@s..., Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
• From: Eddie Robertsson <erobertsson@a...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:45:32 +1000
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Hi James,

>the xerces support question is a good one. where the url has a scheme, it is not a relative url.
>
>what's more, what is the sense of specifying the scheme on a relative url.
>wouldn't "myDir/mFile" make more sense. where one specifies the scheme, the effect would be distinctly not relative, since, for example, were a document to
>have, for example, an http: base url, a file: relative url would denote a change in scheme.
>
That's a good point and I did in fact test this with the latest version 
of Xerces and it seems to work!

So it seems that a relative URI can be specified by not defining a 
scheme which makes sense to me. However, does this then mean that Xalan 
and Saxon are wrong in accepting

file:myDir/myFile

as a relative URI?

Cheers,
/Eddie

>
>none of which, however, affects the prejudice, that it should work anyway.
>
>...
>
>you wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've run into a problem using Xerces (2.2.0) for W3C XML Schema
>>validation when it comes to specifying relative paths to the schema
>>document. Here is the scenario:
>>
>>...
>>
>>-------------------------8<--------------------------------------------------
>>Hi Eddie. Is a string of the form "file:myDir/myFile" really a relative
>>URI?
>>I'm not sure it is; the hostname isn't mentioned at the very least.
>>Shouldn't
>>it be "file:///./myDir/myFile"?
>>    
>>

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