• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:39:36 -0000
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• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> Hmmm.... I'm a really lazy typist creating links to a 
> collection of documents with a shared base URI.  I have to 
> create a lot of links to a document at the base ID, and in 
> fact to a particular fragid-identified location in that 
> document.  Since I don't want to type the fragid repeatedly, 
> I drop it in the base URI and type a lot of <a href="">.
> 

That runs you into another ghastly mess in the infamous RFC 2396,
whereby zero-length relative URIs are invalid according to the syntax,
but have defined semantics, in terms of a concept called the "current
document" which appears to be distinct from the base URI but is nowhere
defined.

Michael Kay

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