On Sep 17, 10:06 pm, Daniel DeLorme <dan... / dan42.com> wrote: > franco wrote: > > not a weakness, in that string 'behold:' is a valid uri, it has a > > scheme with a scheme delimeter (":"). "www.abc.com" is not an > > unambiguous uri, no scheme present. > > Is it a valid uri if nothing is present after the scheme? Anyway, I know > that the results are technically valid but they are less than useful if > you want, say, to extract and "linkify" urls that users might have > written inside a message. (which is what I assumed the OP wanted but I > might have been mistaken) > > Daniel you could just select the ones with a scheme scpecific part? or screen scrape for //a/@href to get all hyperreferenced anchors (links).