>  From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:Jeff.Lowery@[...].com]
>  Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:15 PM
>  To: xml-dev@[...].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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