Re: XInclude and SAX Incompatibility

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/ Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]> was heard to say:
| At 4:03 PM -0400 6/24/03, Peter McCracken wrote:
[...]
|>I'm envisioning the scenario when no URL is given (href="
|>#fragment-identifier").  This would be resolved against the current
|>document.  And the current document might not necessarily be able to be
|>reopened, if it is coming from an input stream other than a regular file.
|
| That's not legal. According to section 5.3 all element and document
| information items *must* have base URI properties, against which a
| relative URL can be resolved.

Yes, but per Section 4.2 of RFC2396:

 4.2. Same-document References

   A URI reference that does not contain a URI is a reference to the
   current document.  In other words, an empty URI reference within a
   document is interpreted as a reference to the start of that document,
   and a reference containing only a fragment identifier is a reference
   to the identified fragment of that document.  Traversal of such a
   reference should not result in an additional retrieval action.
   However, if the URI reference occurs in a context that is always
   intended to result in a new request, as in the case of HTML's FORM
   element, then an empty URI reference represents the base URI of the
   current document and should be replaced by that URI when transformed
   into a request.

a reference of the form "#foo" is always a reference to the current
document. It *is not* resolved according to the current base URI.

You might argue that XInclude, like HTML's FORM, "is always intended
to result in a new request", but I wouldn't.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <[email protected]> | I'm NOT in denial!
http://nwalsh.com/            | 
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