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> > I always took that "unless" clause to apply to relative URIs showing > > up somewhere in document content, not in the DTD; all those examples > > were of that type, and the rest of that sentence (and paragraph, and > > section!) clearly applies to URIs as declared within the DTD, not to > > any of the cases in that clause's examples. > > I took it to apply to both. It would be peculiar to embed the > statement in a paragraph about system identifiers if it didn't apply > to them. That clause was indeed rather peculiar. At best it was an incomplete thought; the spec has no business leaving the door open to retrospective re-interpretation of data that's already been parsed/interpreted. > I assume by "those examples" you mean "a special XML element type > defined by a particular DTD, or ... That in particular was bizarre, yes. <xhtml:base> (or xml:base attributes) would be in the body of the document, so why the heck would they even need to be mentioned in a section talking about the DTD? The same is true for _any_ application level semantics (such as PIs). - Dave
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