- From: Mike Sokolov <sokolov@falutin.net>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400
- To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On 09/05/2012 12:47 PM, Michael Kay wrote: > >All this time I thought xml:base would override the base URI used for > resolving external entities. > > It can't. It can only affect the base URI of elements within its > scope, and external entity URIs don't appear within the scope of any > element. > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > > I think "external entity" has some special meaning here that isn't apparent to me. I thought that xml:base was made available as a hint for a URI resolver resolving relative URIs within a document, and that these relative URIs might in turn resolve to something external to the document - what David is referring to as an external entity. -Mike Sokolov
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