Off-list reply, because you're off-topic, and Tommie doesn't like that...

Two slashes is always wrong, but some software tolerates it. You want either
one slash or three. There's technically a difference but in practice they
are equivalent.

With the file:/ or file:/// prefix you have a rooted (absolute) path.
Without any prefix you have a relative path, for example scan0001.tif
selects a file in the same directory as the current document (the one
containing the link).

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ivanmacculi@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:ivanmacculi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 December 2009 13:03
> To: XSL user
> Subject:  xlink:href
> 
> Hi all, i've problems to determine the right path for a 
> internal resource with xlink's attribute, href.
> 
> i found this different ways suggested:
> 
> <mets:FLocat xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
> LOCTYPE="URL" xlink:href="file://Scan00001.tif"/>
> 
> this second one:
> 
> <mets:FLocat xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
> LOCTYPE="URL" xlink:href="file:///Scan00001.tif"/>
> 
> (with 3 slash... i don't understand the difference)
> 
> and the last:
> 
> <mets:FLocat xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
> LOCTYPE="URL" xlink:href="Scan00001.tif"/>
> 
> when can i use these ways? are there differences?
> thanks to all.