Re: @xml:base with @rendition (and maybe other pointers)

Martin Holmes <[email protected]> Tue, 2 May 2017 12:51:27 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.text.tei.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2017-05-02 11:52 AM, Syd Bauman wrote:
> Martin has taken the words right out of my mouth:
>> One unanswered question might be whether the dereferencing process
>> in a prefixDef is supposed to take account of @xml:base, though...

I've raised an issue for that specific point:

<https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1637>

Cheers,
Martin

> But I also have to admit, I'm not 100% sure how
> | <note xml:base="http://www.example.edu/SydNotes.xml" target="#silly"/>
> is supposed to be dereferenced. I have always thought it meant
> the element at http://www.example.edu/SydNotes.xml#silly. But RFC
> 3986 "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax" says
> |  When a same-document reference is dereferenced for a retrieval
> |  action, the target of that reference is defined to be within the
> |  same entity (representation, document, or message) as the
> |  reference; therefore, a dereference should not result in a new
> |  retrieval action.
> which confuses me.
>
>
> All this leads me to prefer <prefixDef> over @xml:base.
>