> Hmmm.... I'm a really lazy typist creating links to a
> collection of documents with a shared base URI. I have to
> create a lot of links to a document at the base ID, and in
> fact to a particular fragid-identified location in that
> document. Since I don't want to type the fragid repeatedly,
> I drop it in the base URI and type a lot of <a href="">.
>
That runs you into another ghastly mess in the infamous RFC 2396,
whereby zero-length relative URIs are invalid according to the syntax,
but have defined semantics, in terms of a concept called the "current
document" which appears to be distinct from the base URI but is nowhere
defined.
Michael Kay
