- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 21:33:56 -0700
- To: "'Brian McBride'" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, <uri@w3.org>
> Would there be an opportunity to introduce a URI form, similar to a same > document reference, but which is in fact a URI reference and whose > interpretation is modified by xml:base. Procedurally, the goal is to produce a new document at the "Draft Standard" level. I don't think we can introduce new features at all, although it's possible to fix errors and correct for difficulties, the corrections allowable at Draft Standard level are usually those things allowable in widespread use. So the short answer is: no. The best way to propose a new feature is to write a separate document. We might need to acknowledge xml:base in the 'base URL' calculation, and possibly even propose an imaginary URL scheme for "this here document" for dealing with same document references, but I'd be uneasy about trying to create some new form which actually was intended to invoke a different calculation than what is currently used.
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