Headsup on hCard profile xml:base concerns

As a result of my action of helping the folks at Semantic Conference
Technology redo their schedule in hCard and vCard (I'm making good
progress, more updates later), I came across a concern related to our
recent conversation about xml:base.

The problem surrounds the hCard profile
(http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard) :

In order to match a grddl:profileTransformation assertion with the
profile URL as the subject, the result of applying
http://www.w3.org/2003/g/glean-profile to the profile needs a 'proper'
base.  When I run the transformation via 4Suite XML I get:

chimezie@otherland:~$ 4xslt  http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard
http://www.w3.org/2003/g/glean-profile
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:dataview="http://www.w3.org/2003/g/data-view#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xml:base="">
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="">
    <dataview:profileTransformation
rdf:resource="../vcard/hcard2rdf.xsl"/>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Note the xml:base="".  My understanding (and this seems to be the case
with the underlying RDF parser - RDFLib) is that the empty string value
becomes the hardcoded base instead of following the XML Base mechanism
which begins with no base in the content (in which case the base would
be the profile URL).

Without xml:base, the profileTransformation assertion matches up, with
it as an empty string, it doesn't - and so hcard2rdf.xsl is not applied
against the XHTML document which indicated that
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard is its HTML profile.

Perhaps I'm misreading this particular use of xml:base, but any
clarification would help.

-- 
Chimezie Ogbuji
Lead Systems Analyst
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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Cleveland, Ohio 44195
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Received on Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:32:58 UTC