[topicmapmail] xml:base and #foo URIs

Martin Bryan martin@is-thought.co.uk
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:03:17 +0100


Lars Marius wrote:

>.... However, it seems to me that
> same-document references ("" and "#foo") are *not* resolved relative
> to the base URI, but to the document URI. If that is true XML Base
> does not affect these URI references at all.

My understanding has been that Base URL only affects relative URLS. I.E.
urls that have local path names but not abosulte url addresses. For example,
docs/report1/xml#id1, so that the absolute server does not matter.

Martin Bryan