Re: baseURI / xml:base

Ian Hickson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> I filed a bug to remove support for xml:base given it's nowhere else: 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 Not entirely sure 
> what the right solution is for baseURI though. Especially 
> document.baseURI is useful.

FWIW, just the other day I was suggesting to Dimitry that xml:base would 
be useful for use with templates and shadow content. I'd be happy to 
remove the markup-level feature (or maybe make it more HTML-friendly), but 
per-node base URLs are something that I think we'll need more and more in 
the coming years. Syndication, widgets, templating, etc, all would benefit 
greatly from this kind of thing.

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