Re: Base uri of the documents on the 'current' port

On 5/20/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> / Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> | do the xml:base attribute have any incidence ?
>
> Yes, any xml:base attribute trumps the document base URI for that
> element and its descendants.

Don't we have to say that since we're producing XML documents that
haven't been serialized and parsed?  That is, if a step produces
an element with an xml:base attribute, the next step should see
that element's base URI affected appropriately.

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

Received on Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:08:18 UTC