- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:07:38 +0000
On 2 Mar 2007, at 19:25, Keryx Web wrote: > Anne van Kesteren skrev: >> I think <base> should also be allowed in XML documents. It >> simplifies the language, it already needs to be supported and >> <base> is able to set Document.baseURI where xml:base can at most >> set Document.documentElement.baseURI. (Document.baseURI influences >> how XMLHttpRequest works for instance.) >> The <base> element section should probably also talk about what >> happens when you modify the .href attribute. > > And today the base element already works in at least FFox and Opera > also when content is sent as true XHTML 1.0, so this would not > really change anything but the spec. XHTML 1.0/1.1 doesn't allow xml:base, though, so <base> is the only way to set a base URL within the document. - Geoffrey Sneddon
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