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--On Friday, March 03, 2006 18:30:59 +0100 Florent Georges wrote:
"G. Ken Holman" wrote: The registry of URI schemes is maintained by IANA - see <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html>. The relevant entry is: file Host-specific file names [RFC1738] The relevant section of RFC1738 <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt> is section 3.10. A file URL takes the form: file://<host>/<path> [...] As a special case, <host> can be the string "localhost" or the empty string; this is interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is being interpreted'. The form "file:/x..." where 'x' is any character other than '/' is not a syntactically correct URL according to RFC1738. Those who are using Java (and thus any of the many XSL tools implemented in Java) will find that the "file:///<path>" form which is correct according to RFC1738 will be 'normalised' to the syntactically incorrect "file:/<path>" by some operations. Fortunately, this form is not defined to mean something else by the RFC, and seems to be handled consistently. The form with an explicitly specified <host> is best avoided. The effect seems to depend of which application is doing what as well as which OS is providing the files being referred to.
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