• To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Subject: Re: Entity resolution vs. URI resolution
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:36:24 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: Edwin Goei <edwingo@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <027f01c1a5cb$c99342e0$6800000a@b...> from David Brownellat "Jan 25, 2002 10:11:13 am"

David Brownell scripsit:

> That presupposes that they are different things.  Let me put
> it to you this way:  when would it lead to anything other than
> confusion to resolve a URI http://xml.example.com/foo in
> two different ways depending on whether it was used as
> the SYSTEM id for an entity, or something else?

Well, normally you would want a random URI in a document to
reflect any xml:base attribute that is present, but system identifiers
are definitely exempt from xml:base processing.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@c...
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