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Re: Relative URI references


Dare Obasanjo wrote:

--- Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is the possibility of ids being in schemes like
HTTP that would introduce the possibility of scheme specific URI
comparisons, not the ability for URIs to be expressed as being relative
to xml:base.

If the consensus is that HTTP URLs should be allowed
for IDs then relative URIs should be banned. If a
specific URI scheme is mandated then it should be one
that doesn't have a relative URI scheme. Either way
relative URIs for IDs are a bad idea.

From RFC 2396, section 1.4, paragraph 2:

    This document defines a scheme-independent `relative' form of URI
    reference that can be used in conjunction with a `base' URI (of a
    hierarchical scheme) to produce another URI.

HTTP may make scheme specific URI comparisons harder, but it certainly does not make relative URI resolution any easier or harder.

- Sam Ruby