Re: 7. Are CDATA sections allowed?

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mike Sokolov <sokolov@falutin.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> No, an external entity is something very specific, not just "something
> external to the document."
>
> Again back to the layers. External entities are handled by the parse
> layer.  xml:base only applies at the application layer, which is separate.
>  So for example other applications such as XInclude can recognize xml:base.
>  In general if you need to do something somewhat like external entities,
> but need to use xml:base, XInclude is the way to go, though you might need
> XPointer as well if you want one inclusion to contain multiple root
> elements, because XInclude targets must be well-formed documents, not
> general entities.
>

Oops. Just wanted to add the nit-picky point that it's a different matter
if you use parse="text"‎, but then you can only include character data, not
text.


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