On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:16:08 +0100, Keryx Web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] I think that it would be wise to answer questions such as if both <base> and xml:base are present, which one should "win"?
They don't conflict. They are both applied. <base> is the document's base URI, and xml:base is the base URI of the element it is applied on. xml:base can be a relative URI so you can have e.g.:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:base="foo/"> <head xml:base="bar/"> <base href="http://www.example.org/"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="baz.css"/> ... ...where the link references http://www.example.org/foo/bar/baz.css.
[...] What authority do you rely on when you say that the attribute must be explicitly allowed?
A conforming XHTML 1.0 document must conform to the DTD, which effectively disallows xml:base and a whole bunch of other things (including, say, namespace prefixes).
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict -- Simon Pieters
