- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:29:06 +0300
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
The spec contains this sentence regarding <base>: "A base element, if it has an href attribute, must come before any other elements in the tree that have attributes with URIs." Is that sentence intended to be merely a statement of the consequence of the content models of <html> and <head>? If so, it would be nice have the sentence start with something that labels it as a restatement of something else. OTOH, if the sentence itself is meant to have the consequence that xml:base must not appear on <html>, <head> or <meta charset>, it would be good to state that consequence explicitly. As for processing, exempting <base href> from xml:base processing and saying that <base href> establishes the base RFC 3986 base URI for the purposes of xml:base means that xml:base on <html>, <head> or <meta charset> is not disrupted by <base href>. Therefore, the consequence I speculated about in the previous paragraph seems excessive. (Even in the case of streaming processing, it would be feasible to defer xml:base computations until a conforming <base> has been seen.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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