Sjoerd Visscher wrote: > > Sam Ruby wrote: > >> Apparently, consuming tools are welcome to aggressively substitute >> references to the enclosing parent document of any element for any >> references that, when resolved according to xml:base, differ from that >> xml:base only in ways that deal with normalization and fragment >> identifiers. This can only cause confusion if the xml:base in effect >> differs from original xml:base of the document (i.e., the URI used to >> retrieve the document in the first place) in ways other than the >> fragment identifier. > > You've nailed it.
Sjoerd, I'd be interested in your comments on this: http://tinyurl.com/9o6y2 - Sam Ruby
