The base URI of the ref element is “http://www.dictionary.com/a.html” therefore the fragment identifier *MUST* refer to an element within a.html.
From: "John P. McCaskey" <mailbox@j...>
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Date: Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 7:53 AM
To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
Subject: xml:base and fragments
A (somewhat Talmudic) discussion on the TEI mailing list (https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A0=tei-l) regarding xml:base has come to a conclusion I want to run by XML-DEV readers.
TEI defines some XML attributes as RFC 3986-compliant URIs that fully honor xml:base.
The question is whether a value in this attribute of the form #fragment refers to an XML element in the document that contains the attribute or to a location specified by xml:base.
The (almost) consensus is that to resolve such a standalone fragment, xml:base values should be ignored.
In this excerpt from example.xml
<div xml:base="http://www.dictionary.com/a.html">
<p>
<ref target="#apple">Apple</ref>
</p>
</div>
does #apple refer to an element in example.xml that has id="apple" or to http://www.dictionary.com/a.html#apple?
The first, right?
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