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Daniel Veillard scripsit: > but what about URI-References ;-) > <fragment href="foo.xml#[XPointer]"/> > you still need the context to get hold of the resource and then be able > to do the XPointer computation. In that case, the meaning of the relative URI is determined by the context (viz. the location) of the embedding document, *not* by its content. This distinction is fundamental, though I admit that xml:base blurs it. > [H]aving the xmlns() scheme to use the same prefix (when possible) in the > XPointer and target would allow to make nice examples and exercises in > an XML Namespaces for Dummies book :-) Certainly a reasonable "best practice", though of course not possible in the case of non-sane documents. -- John Cowan jcowan@r... www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today. --_Specht v. Netscape_
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