>  From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard@[...].com]
>  Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:27 PM
>  To: Julian Reschke
>  Cc: Dave Pawson; collin@seu.edu.cn; xml-dev@[...].org
>  Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?
> 
> 
>  On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:40:47PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
>  > Well,
>  >
>  > actually things *are* progressing:
>  >
>  > <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffkohn-rfc1738bis-00.txt>
> 
>    Oops I rejoiced too fast apparently, I see no update or improvement
>  to the definition of the file protocol definition :->   I also really wonder if Microsoft 
tools would be made compliant to
>  a new revision of that draft, that would be the only way to be sure
>  that all implementation actually converge in the end, and somewhat I
>  have doubts that they would drop support for
>      file://c:/sgml/uriincl/uriIncl.xml
>   or file:/c:/sgml/uriincl/uriIncl.xml

They wouldn't really need to. It would be a good achievement to get
consensus on the *right* syntax, and have that one supported everywhere. As
far as I can tell, the only issue is how to map the drive letter.

>  if the new file scheme definition remained in the spirit of the old one.
>  Actually file has never been implemented as a protocol, even 1738 warned
>  about this, really this should be defined as a special scheme using
>  the opaque_part derivation of absoluteURI if one want to get something out
>  of a redefinition.
>    I'm still pessimistic about this,

At least there is a new Internet Draft. I''m sure the authors will
appreciate constructive feedback.

Julian


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