Martin McEvoy wrote: > Yes Correct, Its bad in other ways because it makes parsers much more > complex Don't most programming languages have functions like relative URI resolution as built-ins or standard libraries? Perl certainly does - supporting relative URIs costs Cognition about two lines of code. Karsten: surely Microsoft must have at least one relative URI resolution function knocking around somewhere. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>