Autolink restrictions

[Crissov]

http://spec.commonmark.org/0.28/#autolink

Is the simple reason that none of the following relative (i.e. not absolute-URI) autolinks are supposed to be working, that it is too hard to distinguish them from HTML tags?

<directory/>
<file.ext>
</root/file.ext>
<./local/file.ext>
<../upper-level/file.ext>
<#target>
<?query>

Link titles are not explicitly supported in autolinks. Was that a deliberate decision, especially since internal whitespace is disallowed?

<long file.ext>
<me@privacy.net "My Name">
<http://example.com "standardized example domain">

Babelmark

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[notriddle]

@Crissov

Is the simple reason that none of the following relative (i.e. not absolute-URI) autolinks are supposed to be working, that it is too hard to distinguish them from HTML tags?

Yes. Some of them even are valid tags (the first one is an empty tag, and the last one is a processing instruction).

[cben]

Would be handy if at least <./relative/path> form worked.