RE: issue-dbooth-4f: Sec 4, base IRI of an element

P.S. I notice that RFC3986 refers to the "base URI of a representation":
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt


David Booth, Ph.D.
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> [mailto:public-grddl-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
> Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:25 PM
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> Subject: issue-dbooth-4f: Sec 4, base IRI of an element
> 
> 
> In Sec 4
> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec#rule_tlrel
> 
> The normative definition of GRDDL transformation mentions 
> "the base IRI
> of E" , but E was defined as "the head element".  Does "the head
> element" have a base IRI?  A quick scan of the XHTML spec at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ shows no mention of base URI.  
> The XML spec
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ mentions the "base URI of a 
> resource".  Is
> the concept of a base URI of an element supposed to be defined
> somewhere, or is this an editorial error?
> 
> Come to think of it, I guess this question also applies to 
> the section 2
> definition of GRDDL transformation:
> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec#rule_GRDDL_transformation
> 
> 
> David Booth, Ph.D.
> HP Software
> +1 617 629 8881 office  |  dbooth@hp.com
> http://www.hp.com/go/software
> 
> Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent
> the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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