[topicmapmail] xml:base and #foo URIs

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Lars Marius Garshol]

> Actually, they are inextricably tied together. If xml:base affects the
> latter, but not the former, the result of processing your PSI TM when
> downloaded to the local file system the <topicRef/> links will be to
> attempt to download the version on your site to resolve the <topicRef/>s.
> Similarly, if xml:base affects the former, but not the latter, all
> internal <topicRef/>s will break.
>
> So xml:base has to either affect both or neither.
>

Yes, but xml:base could still be applied to subjectIndicatorRef and
resourceRef, provided that they were not just plain fragment identifiers.
The main reason for doing this, it seems to me, would be to shorten URI
references for PSIs, which is probably a minor goal in the scheme of things.

Cheers,

Tom P