[topicmapmail] ["Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com>] RE: XML Base question

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Guy Murphy
|
| Since when did the base designation not indicate where the
| cannonical location of the document is for processing?

It never did that. What it does is change the base URI against which
relative URIs are resolved. Usually the base URI is a canonical
location for the document, but it need not be.

| Such processing is useful (one might argue essential), so that one
| can download onto your local system part of a composite document and
| be assured that relative links will resolve appropriately to the
| resources they are pointing to.

That's precisely the behaviour XML Base has now. So what are you
unhappy about?
 
| Am I missing something fundamental to this argument?

Quite possibly, but you don't say enough about what you think for me
to be able to judge.

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