Re: Added proposal to make xml:base generally applicable

[James Aylett <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:32:03AM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:

> If xml base is everywhere, then how should the following line in my atom 
> feed be interpreted?
> 
> <issued>2004-02-26T09:15:36-05:00</issued>

What's the data type of the contents of <issued/>? A W3CDTF (from
memory); xml base doesn't apply to this type.
 
> It seems to me that the spec needs to identify the places where a URI is 
> expected  - either by enumeration (link/@href, id, url) or by rule (the 
> media type on title, summary, and content may define a data type which 
> contains relative uris).

I think we'd need to specify which parts of the Atom vocabulary are
URIs in the spec (and in the schema)? (Which is enumeration.) And then
define that the base URI for <content/> data is evaluated using XML
base processing on the <content/> element. (Which is by rule.) So
"both". Which is possibly what you meant to say.

I don't have time to look up the specs, but are we going to get nasty
clashes with BASE processing in HTML, or will the above fit with it
nicely?

James

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