- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:33:39 -0400
- To: XML-uri@w3.org
At 07:22 PM 6/9/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > >> 1) What's the base URI of a defaulted attribute? > >Defaulted or specified, the base URI is that of the element, i.e. >derived from the external general entity in which the element >appears. Hmmm... I won't battle this too hard, but it seems more logical from the point of view of a DTD designer for the base URI of a defaulted attribute to be the base URI of the file containing the DTD: <!ATTLIST myML xmlns #IMPLIED "relative/to/dtd/uri/"> I can see where that adds additional complexity to processing, of course, but if the base URI is that of the document, not the DTD, I'd suggest that deserves explicit mention to keep people from having unexpected results from the kind of defaulting shown above. 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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