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Re: A proposed solution

From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:30:11 -0700
Message-ID: <009501bfd344$995ae110$83b11eac@redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
To: "John Cowan" <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
Cc: "David Carlisle" <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>, "David Turner" <dturner@microsoft.com>, <XML-uri@w3.org>, "Andrew Layman" <andrewl@microsoft.com> 
> That turns out not to be the case, as I said before.  Single documents
> can and do contain more than one external entity with more than one
> base URI.

If retrieving an external entity, the context may change when resolving
relative references depending on the URI of the external entity. [1]
seems in fact to indicate this for the system identifier itself which
presumeably can be nested?

In this case relative URIs have to be compared with the two (or more)
contexts in mind. Is this is the case for system identifiers then why
wouldn't it be the case for namespace identifiers?

Henrik

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#sec-external-ent
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