• To: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Subject: Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:33:01 -0400
• Cc: Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <3DADCC16.5010709@y...>
• References: <3DACA738.6070600@a...><p04330100b9d2e2868726@[192.168.254.4]> <3DAD4C1D.C02A377A@s...><p04330106b9d30244eae7@[192.168.254.4]> <3DADCC16.5010709@y...>

At 10:29 PM +0200 10/16/02, J.Pietschmann wrote:

>A C as hostname would be legal. But the string above fails the port
>part of the production, if there is a colon, a decimal number designing
>the port should follow.
>

No, C is not a network host. It satisfies the BNF grammar but it does 
not satisfy the spec semantics. It refers to the host named C, not 
the disk named C.
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