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Re: baseURI / xml:base

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 21:56:52 +0000 (UTC)
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1308092156340.27623@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 8/9/13 5:37 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > FWIW, just the other day I was suggesting to Dimitry that xml:base 
> > would be useful for use with templates and shadow content. I'd be 
> > happy to remove the markup-level feature (or maybe make it more 
> > HTML-friendly), but per-node base URLs are something that I think 
> > we'll need more and more in the coming years. Syndication, widgets, 
> > templating, etc, all would benefit greatly from this kind of thing.
> 
> Do these need _mutable_ per-node base urls, or per-node base urls that 
> are created once, at node creation time, and then persist forever?
> 
> I would be much happier, personally, with immutable per-node base urls.

Immutable per-node base URLs seem like they'd be sufficient for the use 
cases I'm thinking of.

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