- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:12:51 -0500
- To: keshlam@us.ibm.com, "Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
At 13:49 2000 07 14 -0400, keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: >Shouldn't xml:base just trackl what the Infoset already does with base >URIs? A base URI, however it's asserted, is inherited downward until a new >one is asserted. Whether that assertion reflects physical division of data >(entity) or logical (xml:base), it's still a single value and a single >behavior. Everything you say above sounds right to me. Note that changing to a different external entity does assert a different base URI. >At least, that's what I would expect to see. > >Note that the Infoset and DOM have to agree upon whether base URIs are >early-binding or late-binding. This doesn't matter for a static parse; it >does matter if the Infoset is edited. I don't think the Infoset spec considers editing. It defines the result of a static parse. This may mean that dynamic applications and specs (DOM included) are a bit on their own here. You might want to send in a comment to the Infoset comment list on this (the Infoset is about to be re-published as an updated WD within the week). paul
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