XML Base question from Grosso, Paul on 2009-10-21 (public-xml-core-wg@w3.org from October 2009)

From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:49:59 -0400
To: <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CF83BAA719FD2C439D25CBB1C9D1D302112AF361@HQ-MAIL4.ptcnet.ptc.com>

I can't imagine we didn't discuss this, but my memory 
fails me, and I don't see the answer in the spec.

How, if at all, does xml:base affect the system id of 
a parsed entity declaration?

Given the following document at /root/mydoc.xml
(and assuming that the external subset declares 
entityref as an attribute of type ENTITY):

<!DOCTYPE doc PUBLIC "some external subset" [
<!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "graphics/logo.gif" GIF>
]>
<doc>
<div xml:base="/other/">
<graphic entityref="logo"/>
</div>
</doc>


is the effective URI used by the graphic element
	/root/graphics/logo.gif
or
	/other/graphics/logo.gif


paul

Received on Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:50:55 UTC