Re: [ALL] xml:base and URIs with hashes

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Graham Klyne wrote:
>> According to RFC 3986 [1], a base URI is not permitted to have a fragment.  See
>> sections 5.1 and 4.3.
> 
> Though note that the value of the xml:base attribute is a string that
> can be converted to a URI reference using a specific algorithm, it's
> not a "Base URI" as defined in RFC 3986 though it can be transformed
> into that.

Yes. xmlbase specifies:

[[
The value of this attribute is interpreted as a URI Reference as defined 
in RFC 2396 [IETF RFC 2396], after processing according to Section 3.1.
]]

and then implicitly suggests dropping any fragment, since the latter 
parts of the document talks about URIs rather than URI Reference.

Jeremy

Received on Monday, 23 January 2006 13:30:32 UTC