Tim Bray wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:21 PM, David Powell wrote: > >> We say that Simple Extension Elements are not language sensitive, but >> we don't say that Simple Extension constructs aren't affected by >> xml:base. I think that the implication is that they are not, but it >> is not very explicit: > > > They *are* affected by xml:base. xml:base establishes the base URI for > wherever it's in-scope, with a specific callout to RFC3986 for the > semantics. Anytime you see something that you know is a relative URI > reference, you have to absolutize it using the base URI, and the base > URI is what xml:base says it is. -Tim
What Tim said. The xml:base is generic XML tech, so implementations won't/can't care about extension specifics of Atom. Asking people's XML tool chains to handle Atom base processing in a special way... pain, lots of pain ;) cheers Bill
