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

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
| 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.

I don't think there's anything in XML Base that suggests it's a
parse-time only thing. I think adding an xml:base attribute in a DOM,
for example, would change the interpretation of relative URIs under that
node.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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