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RE: Comments on new XML Base draft

From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:45:20 -0000
To: "'Richard Tobin'" <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: <www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <004301c70aaa$d3382a60$6401a8c0@turtle>

> > 1. The rules on returning xml:base unescaped seem to have 
> changed too 
> > radically for an erratum: this needs the spec to be versioned.
> 
> The rules have not *changed* - there were no rules on 
> returning the base URI in the original version.  

That's an interesting interpretation, but I'm sure most people would have
assumed that the base URI is computed by "the processor", and that the
phrase (in 3.1)

processors _must_ encode and escape these characters

therefore means that what the application sees is what the processor has
produced after doing so...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 
Received on Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:45:30 GMT

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