Friday, March 31, 2006, 11:02:18 AM, Sean Lyndersay wrote:
> I haven't looked in detail at how IE does on the xml:base > comformance tests, since the current beta has no support for > xml:base. In light of that fact, I'm glad we failed outright instead > of halfway; halfway would have been weird :). > We're actually implementing xml:base support right now (and in the > process, fixing the relative URL issue that Sam Ruby pointed out in > our normalization format), so we'll be broken on those conformance > tests for while. The fix won't make it out in the next public > release, but it should make the one after that. > I'll let you know how we do on those tests when the code is done. Great. It would be good if you could preserve the "effective" base-URI of feeds and entries, so that applications using Atom extensions that contain relative URIRefs can resolve them into URIs. I suppose that it could be done by pinning an absolute xml:base onto the channel and item elements. -- Dave
