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

On 5/23/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> / 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.

Sure, but does the DOM say that?  Does any other API say that?

I think we need to explicitly say that we honor xml:base attributes and expect
the right thing to happen between steps.


-- 
--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 Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:48:48 UTC