* Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-20 01:20]: > While I agree this interpretation is potentially correct, it > moves us pretty far away from the idea of a self-contained > document with a singular embedded base URI, which is all that > RFC2396 ever discusses.
That is pretty much what I said; yes. The “base URI embedded in content” which the RFC describes is really one which has to apply to the entire document. > Whether the idea "same-document" references still make sense > when the document isn't a document but an XML element buried > deep inside an actual document. It partially does – see Sjoerd’s and Antone’s replies and my reply to them. But the language in RFC3986 does not consider this use case, and the language in the xml:base TR does not address same-document references at all. So there are things possible in the scope of the xml:base TR, for whose behaviour it defers to the RFC, which only considers a small subset of the possible use cases. So we have a mismatched layering of specs, for a certain class of use cases… ugh. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
