RE: [xml-dev] Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

> Michael Kay scripsit:
> 
> > I will never be surprised to find yet more horrors in RFC 
> 2396, but I 
> > certainly didn't expect anyone to tell me that the word 
> "relative" is 
> > not being used as an adjective to qualify the noun "URI".
> 
> It isn't.  Relative URLs are one kind of URI reference.  
> "Relative URI" is not a standardized term.

You have to be joking.

Why does RFC 2396 use a non-standardized term 28 times?

Michael Kay