Peter,
You got me thinking about this in case I was wrong.... so I checked your code on default Apache and IIS web servers and it results in 404 errors, unless you used for example "/index.html" in a sub-folder then this links to the parent folder! NOT the required outcome at all. And Xenu would not see this as an error, but would result in the use of keywords linking to irrelevant content.
Anyhow, if we go back to the actual topic if relates to
relative or absolute links.
As I said according Google Googlebot prefers absolute links:
URLs not followed
Absolute links are defined as:
http://www.my--company.com/one.html#anchor-one
And relative as:
./one.html#anchor-one or one.html#anchor-one
see the middle of this page:
Links in HTML documents
So to conclude it is best practice to use absolute links in the form of:
Code:
<a title="this page is about..." href="http://www.the--domain.com/folder-name/file-name.html">Relevant words linking to page</a>
Anyone else concur, or disagree....