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Re: [XOM-interest] namespace checking

From: John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
To: elharo AT metalab.unc.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Cc: jcowan AT reutershealth.com (John Cowan), mike AT wyeast.net (Michael Fitzgerald), xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org (XOM)
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] namespace checking
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:30:22 -0400 (EDT)

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> >A URI is absolute iff it matches this regular expression:
> >
> > ^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9+.-]*:
> >
> >See the productions "absoluteURI" and "scheme" in RFC 2396.
>
> There's a bit more than that. The characters after the colon all have
> to be legal URI characters, and any percent signs have to be followed
> by exactly two hexadecimal digits.

Right. I didn't say "A string is an absolute URI iff" but rather
"A URI [already known to be such] is absolute iff".

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[XOM-interest] namespace checking, Michael Fitzgerald, 10/09/2002
- Re: [XOM-interest] namespace checking, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 10/09/2002
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- RE: [XOM-interest] namespace checking, Michael Fitzgerald, 10/09/2002
  - RE: [XOM-interest] namespace checking, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 10/10/2002
    - Re: [XOM-interest] namespace checking, John Cowan, 10/10/2002
      - Re: [XOM-interest] namespace checking, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 10/11/2002
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] namespace checking, John Cowan, 10/11/2002