- From: Rushforth, Peter <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:59:36 +0000
- To: David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com>, "public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org" <public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org>
David, > Only one of these (xml:base) is even close to language > oriented. and xml:base is *only* there to serve the problem > which was generated by allowing external parsed entities. > xml:base doesnt let you link to anything ... it is only > informational about where parts of a XML docuement may have > come from that were not where you originally asked for it. To quote from [1]: "This document describes a mechanism for providing base URI services to XLink, but as a modular specification so that other XML applications benefiting from additional control over relative URIs but not built upon XLink can also make use of it." [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/ > It has nothing at all to do with the application layer. Not true. See above reference to "other XML applications". And the spirit of pipe and filter seems to me reflected in that statement. And many applications could benefit from 'control over relative URIs', although the important fact is URI, relative or absolute. Cheers, Peter
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