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Heh -- but my example used a fully qualified URI, so that wouldn't apply in any case ... :) Given that xml:base has been applied and produced that fully qualified URI, I think my question still stands. - Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...> To: "David Brownell" <david-b@p...> Cc: "Edwin Goei" <edwingo@s...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Entity resolution vs. URI resolution > 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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