- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:33:24 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org, w3c-dom-ig@w3.org
At 09:23 AM 6/15/00 -0400, keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: >>How do you get the base URI of the Document? > >... Good question. I could have sworn we added that, but apparently not. >"Oops." Not a disaster since theoretically your application knows which >document it loaded and can store that somewhere... but it probably should >be part of the DOM. > >>This seems to me a major deficiency in DOM Level 2 > >The DOM has known gaps. We're making mistakes as fast as we can. I'll make >sure base-URI is on the Open Issues list. Be sure to include some kind of handling for when no base URI is available; Infoset might need to do the same thing. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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