Re: DOCBOOK: Working with XInclude / xml:base / libxml v2.4.24 andabove

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

At 2:02 PM -0500 2/12/03, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> It's rather libxml2 now comply to the XInclude requirement of adding such
> an xml:base at the inclusion point (when the included resource is in
> a different path ...)


I'm looking at this for my XIncluder right now, and the requirement 
seems a little stronger to me. They don't even have to be in a 
different path. Suppose for example, 
http://www.example.com/docs/parent.xml includes 
http://www.example.com/docs/child.xml

These two documents have different base URIs even though they have 
the same "path". Thus an xml:base attribute must be added at the 
inclusion point whenever parse="xml". The only possible exception 
would be when both the includer and the included document has null or 
empty base URIs, or perhaps when XPointers are involved and one 
xinclude element is including a different part of the same document.
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