On 8/15/05, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> * Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-15 19:05]:
> > The implementors of Internet Explorer and Mozilla agree with
> > Sam.
> >
> > http://www.franklinmint.fm/2005/08/15/base.html
> 
> That uses html:base, which sets the base URI for the entire
> document, not @xml:base, which sets the base URI for the element
> and its children. Your example is irrelevant.

Oh no, not irrelevance! :)

Both seem to do the job described in section 5.1.1 of RFC 3986,  "Base
URI embedded in content". <http://rfc.net/rfc3986.html#s5.1.>

Just for fun, I made a version that uses xml:base instead. You can try
it with Firefox, which happens to support xml:base:
<http://www.franklinmint.fm/2005/08/15/base.xhtml>

Robert Sayre

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