- From: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:40:15 +0100 (BST)
- To: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
I exchanged email with Roy Fielding concerning the interpretation of xml:base attributes. He says that same-document references are only relevant for retrieval. RFC 2396 clearly says in the section on resolving relative references (5.2 step 2) that an empty URI reference is a reference to the current document, but RFC 3986 does not mention it in that context, and Roy says that RFC 3986 was specifically intended to correct misunderstandings about same-document references. If we accept this, then we can return to believing that xml:base="" is a no-op, which is certainly less surprising. To test current implementations, I have created an XInclude document which produces different results depending on how xml:base="" is interpreted. Please point your XInclude implementation at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/xinclude-base-test/start.xml and see what the result is. -- Richard
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