Re: Relative URI references

[Bill de hÓra <bill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Ruby wrote:

>  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.

I don't see what benefit there is in introducing a processing model 
to determine what are essentially surrogate ids when the ids can 
simply be declared - it strikes me as error prone. Why enable this 
for Atom ids?

cheers
Bill