- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:42:28 -0500
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 22:12 2000 05 16 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote: >John Cowan wrote: >> Jonathan Borden wrote: >> > I suppose the real question is what rules ought be applied >> to transform >> > a relative uri into an absolute uri: >> >> RFC 2396 defines them once and for all, except that there is an extension >> mechanism for things like the HTML BASE element or the proposed xml:base. >> Every Web resource has a base URI, which by default is the URI of the >> document itself. > >Yet xml:base provides a mechanism to override the rules of URI composition >as specified in RFC 2396. No it does not. XML Base says that the rules of 2396 are followed. All XML Base does is to provide a method specific to the XML media type to provide what 2396 calls the application dependent default base uri (see section 5.1.4 of RFC 2396).
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