Re: A proposed solution

> Considering RFC 2557 as a precedent, would it be feasible       
> to define a separate 'base' to be used for xmlns attributes  
> in XML documents?    

well that's the "fixed-base" option which John Cowan and I passed
variations of on this list a day or so ago. It didn't generate
much comment except from Tim Berners-Lee who said it was against the
uri spec.


TBL> The URI spec specifies that a relative URI is relative to the URI
TBL> of the containing document.  That's what it means.

me> XML documents may spread over several entities with different base URI.
me> XML base extends that concept further and means that the base URI
me> may change within a single file. So the language in the RFC probably
me> needs to be changed or creatively interpreted in any case.

David