RE: Resolving references against base URIs

Hi Paul,

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> I now understand you to be pointing out that his answers for same document
> references are only correct if the first column--headed "Base"--is really
> the URL for the document itself (and not some other base URI  determined,
> say, by xml:base), am I understanding you correctly?

Yes, exactly.

> Assuming I am, I agree with you.  It is important that RDF and everyone
> else realize that use of XML Base requires compliance with RFC 2396 which
> requires that relative URI references consisting of just the fragment id
> ignore any base URI and instead always refer to a fragment id within the 
> current document.
> 
> paul

Thanks,

Stuart

Received on Friday, 12 April 2002 13:37:03 UTC