On Mar 23, 2006, at 10:03 AM, David Powell wrote:
xml:base applies to type="xhtml" content, but I'm not sure whether it
is supposed to apply to escaped type="html" content? I reckon that it
does.
RFC4287, section 2:
Any element defined by this specification MAY have an xml:base
attribute [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627]. When xml:base is used in an
Atom Document, it serves the function described in section 5.1.1 of
[RFC3986], establishing the base URI (or IRI) for resolving any
relative references found within the effective scope of the xml:base
attribute.
Seems pretty clear to me. Yes, the base URI of that HTML is now
whatever xml:base said it was -Tim