Hi Jesse,

"Jesse Pelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> If I'm correct in my interpretation, the canonical URI for the file
> system path "C:\foo.xsd" is "file://localhost/C:/foo.xsd".  Since <host>
> will generally be assumed to be "localhost" if omitted, it's probably
> safe to use the short form "file:///C:/foo.xsd".

RFC1738 says:

"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'."

So I would say "file:///C:/foo.xsd" is as "canonical" as
"file://localhost/C:/foo.xsd".

thanks,
-boris


-- 
Boris Kolpackov
Code Synthesis Tools CC
http://www.codesynthesis.com
Open-Source, Cross-Platform C++ XML Data Binding


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