- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:31:31 +0200
- To: keshlam@us.ibm.com
- CC: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: > OPTION 2: ABSOLUTIZE RELATIVE REFERENCES. Namespace Names are URI > References "writ large". If an author writes a relative URI, applications > see it only in its absolutized form, after being combined with the base URI > in effect at that point in the document. Note that a single document may > have multiple base URIs, due to the use of external entities; the XBASE > proposal raises the same possibility. - the XBase instability will impact transformation tools (XSLT) which will either need to transform the namespaces relative URIs if it can see them as such (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000May/0326.html and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000May/0377.html) or, if it can see only the absolutized form will not be able to generate relative URIs (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000May/0373.html) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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