A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
At the moment, the relativize() method of URI will only  relativize URIs when one is a prefix of the other.  It would be useful, however to be able to do things like

    public static void main(String[] argv)
    {
        try
        {
            URI a = new URI("file:/c:/abc/def/myDocument/doc.xml");
            URI b = new URI("file:/c:/abc/def/images/subdir/image.png");
            
            URI c = a.relativize(b);
            
            System.err.println(c);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

If this returned a URI of ../images/subdir/image.png,  it would make my job implementing editors much easier

JUSTIFICATION :
Current relativize method is too limited.
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