xml:base comment for HTML5 WG

I've been going back through my bug, comments, and the HTML5
specification and I'm not sure we have something to actually comment
on.  The section titled "Dynamic changes to base URLs" [1] covers the
behavior for any HTML element when the base URI changes due to a
dynamic change to an xml:base attribute.  Essentially, the 'src'
attribute on elements like 'img' are not affected.  The only
re-evaluation is for certain kinds of links and not for embedded
content.

While they could refer to section 2.6.5 in every situation where they
resolve a URI (e.g. img or iframe's 'src' attribute), they currently
do not and I'm not sure that would make things more clear.  Do we
really want to comment as a WG that they refer to 2.6.5 everywhere
they resolve a URI?  I'm not sure I want to even though it would make
things more explicit.  It would also make the specification even more
verbose.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#dynamic-changes-to-base-urls

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

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