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Re: Does xml:base apply to type="html" content?




Anne van Kesteren wrote:

Quoting James Holderness <j4_james@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
I think the issue of neutral link bookmarking is unlikely to be a problem for Atom aggregators though. Server bugs are another thing, but I think most feeds will be broken without an explicit xml:base anyway, so maybe that's not worth worrying about. I'm not sure though. Should the WG recommend ignoring Content-Location as a base URI, or should aggregators follow the RFC exactly as specified?

If `Content-Location` is not usable or can't be used consistent on a website
(for example, using it for both Atom and HTML content) I suggest we specify
something that is consistent with what browsers do. And perhaps try to obsolete
the relevant header if possible...



The problem is not with Content-Location, but with RFC 3986. It says that same-document references must be resolved with respect to the base URI. It adds that when those references are resolved, they should not result in a new retrieval action, but that does not help with things like bookmarking (as James pointed out), and is almost impossible to implement.

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