Re: @xml:base with @rendition (and maybe other pointers)
Martin Holmes <[email protected]> Tue, 2 May 2017 12:51:27 -0700
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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. >