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> Simon wrote: > >I think XML Base is useful for people too lazy to type complete URIs. > > That's true, but there's a bigger use case. For documents that are > relocatable between local and remote (say file: and http: schemes), > relative URIs are a necessity. Not surprisingly, this is a common > request in XML forms processing. But if you're relocating documents between local and remote contexts, why are you using XML Base? We seem to have a whole set of URI-related transformations that developers simply don't want to think of on those terms, so instead we have a largely underspecified tool that may solve some problems while creating new ones. (Interestingly, XSLT 2.0 seems to be aware of xml:base but XPath 2.0 only mentions Base URI as part of static context, so I'm not sure what the formal transformation status of xml:base actually is.) -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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