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

> From: Dan Connolly [mailto:connolly@w3.org] 
> 
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 21:21 -0400, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
> wrote:
> > [ . . . ]
> > AFAICT this looks like an editorial issue.  Can anyone shed 
> > light on it?
> > Shouldn't this refer to the base IRI of the XML document?
> 
> Perhaps... but I'm not sure where that terminology is actually
> grounded in the specs. If you'd like to help with the spelunking,
> please do suggest some detailed citations. Last time I went
> spelunking, I came up empty, so I just added a note after
> the rule:
> 
> "Note that the base IRI of an element node in an XHTML document may be
> influenced by factors such as a base element[HTML4] Retrieval
> URIRFC3986, etc. See test cases such as htmlbase1 for further
> clarification."
> 
>  -- http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec#rule_tlrel
> 
> I'll probably add a forward reference to the new base appendix too.

I did look, and I couldn't find anywhere a notion of the base URI of an
*element*, so I think we had best avoid that term.  I think there is
significant danger that it could be interpreted as refering to the
namespace of the element.  I think it would be best to use only the
RFC3986-defined notion of the base URI of the *representation*.


David Booth, Ph.D.
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