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> Hmmm.... I'm a really lazy typist creating links to a > collection of documents with a shared base URI. I have to > create a lot of links to a document at the base ID, and in > fact to a particular fragid-identified location in that > document. Since I don't want to type the fragid repeatedly, > I drop it in the base URI and type a lot of <a href="">. > That runs you into another ghastly mess in the infamous RFC 2396, whereby zero-length relative URIs are invalid according to the syntax, but have defined semantics, in terms of a concept called the "current document" which appears to be distinct from the base URI but is nowhere defined. Michael Kay
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