<div dir="ltr">Folks,
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">In RFC 3986, a relative </span><span style="font-size:14px">reference is either an absolute-path </span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">reference (e.g., /foo/bar) or a </span><span style="font-size:14px">relative-path reference (e.g., foo/bar).  </span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">Since OPC allows a relative reference for the Target attribute of </span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">Relationship elements, both</span></div><div><br style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:14px"><Relationship Id="rId1" Target="bar.</span><wbr style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:14px">xml"</span><br style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:14px">Type="</span><a href="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/worksheet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:14px">http://</a><a href="http://example.com/rlt">example.com/rlt</a><span style="font-size:14px">"/></span><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">and </span></div><div><br style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:14px"><Relationship Id="rId2" Target="/foo/bar.</span><wbr style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:14px">xml"</span></div><span style="font-size:14px">Type="</span><a href="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/worksheet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:14px">http://</a><a href="http://example.com/rlt">example.com/rlt</a><span style="font-size:14px">"/></span><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">are correct.</span></div><div style="font-size:14px"><div><br></div><div>But quite a few people mistakenly think that absolute-path </div><div>references are not relative references.  We appear to need </div><div>a note about this.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Makoto</div></div></div>