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> From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:Jeff.Lowery@creo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:15 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?
>
>
> File URLs seem to be interpreted diffently by different
> applications. I've
> seen file:///c:/ fail, or get converted to file://c:/ or file:/c:/ by
> various tools depending presumably on phase of the moon.
>
> RFC2396 is a standard that is frequently implemented in a substandard
> fashion.
Actually, it really isn't RFC2396 (which specs only the general URI syntax).
One big problem here is that RFC2396 obsoletes RFC1738 (which *did* attempt
to define the file: schema) without updating that part as well. I think that
there's now a new activity to get the file: URI scheme specced in a new RFC,
though.
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