RE: Fwd: Moving exc-c14n forward: your response is needed!

No, parent means immediate parent.  To determine the base URI of the
parent, you recursively apply the rules.  An intermediate ancestor may
have an xml:base attribute on it. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Reagle [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:51 AM
> To: Jonathan Marsh; Martin Duerst; [email protected]; Philippe Le
> Hegaret
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Moving exc-c14n forward: your response is needed!
> 
> On Monday 22 April 2002 16:38, Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> > > ... the question is whether
> > > xml:base="" means 'the current document is the base' or it means
> > > 'don't change the base you have', or it is undefined.
> >
> > xml:base="" means don't change the base you have.  An empty string
is
> > treated as any other relative URI.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. As an aside, when the XML Base
> specifications
> refers to "parent" [1] it means "ancestor", right?
> 
> 
> <GrandParent>
> <GrandParent>
> <GrandParent>
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/#granularity
> The base URI of an element is:
> 
> 1. the base URI specified by an xml:base attribute on the element, if
one
> exists, otherwise
> 2. the base URI of the element's parent element within the document or
> external entity, if one exists, otherwise
> 3. the base URI of the document entity or external entity containing
the
> element.