- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 17:30:57 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 02:43 PM 6/4/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote: >This seems a strained distinction to me, given that the base URI is an >infoset property, and that RFC 2396 resolution is a purely syntactic >operation. Maybe this is wacky, but maybe the Infoset needs to include (and define how to deal with) base URIs for namespaces and non-namespace contexts on a per-element basis. This would permit 'higher levels' to perform absolutization and linking reliably and (I hope) reasonably, without having to worry about the various difficulties (inclusions, DTD defaulting, etc.) we've identified with absolutization. This isn't pretty, and it would have to be _optional_ information in the Infoset. The DOM (and maybe SAX, version 2.1 or 3) would need to provide such information. It'll take time getting this out in the world, but it might clean up this mess. On the other hand, I just spent my afternoon at the San Francisco Maritime Museum (Hyde Street pier), and my mind may still be on board ship. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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