Re: baseURI / xml:base

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.

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Received on Friday, 9 August 2013 21:57:15 UTC