On 26/1/05 11:50 AM, "Martin Duerst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> A relative URI would only be useful if there is in fact an xml:base in >> effect. With no xml:base then the relative reference would be useless. > > That's pretty obvious, and applies to all other links. If we want to > point that out in the Atom spec, it should be done in the section > that talks about xml:base. What's not so obvious is that the most common situation for feed documents is that the agent knows what the source location context is, and thus has an implied xml:base to start with. Parsing a feed document from a file on a storage device, the source URI having been discarded ... that's not so obvious. e.
