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  • From: "David Orchard" <orchard@pacificspirit.com>
  • To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:15:56 -0800

The concept of multiple bases came up during discussions on Base.  At the
time, I characterized your proposal as a proposal for what I called a
"Basespace".  This is very similar to namespaces in the naming and scoping
of identifers.  It's an interesting notion.

Cheers,
Dave Orchard
XLink co-editor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
> Ogievetsky, Nikita
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 11:09 AM
> To: 'xml-dev@ic.ac.uk'
> Subject: xml:base
>
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>
> 2 basic questions about XML Base :-) :
>
> 1. If I specify xml:base on XML fragment
>  there is no way to reference local resources within this fragment?
>  this is poor...
> 2. What if I want 2 or 3 bases? Impossible?
> like this:
> <my:a base="mylinks" href="some.html>
> 	<my:img base="myimages" src="img.gif"/>
> </my:a>
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> I think that a reasonable solution will be
> to allow alias ing xml:base like it is done with
> namespaces. May be something like this:
> <AAA	xmlns="yyy.yyy.yyy"
> 	xmlns:xxx="xxx.xxx.xxx"
> 	base:w3tr="http://www.w3.org/TR"
> 	base:cot="http://www.cogx.com/xml99">
> <slink base="cot" href="xity" title="XLink visualiser"/>
> <slink base="w3tr" href="xmlbase" title="XML Base Working Draft"/>
> <slink base="w3tr" href="xlink" title="XML Link Working Draft"/>
> ...
> </AAA>
>
> Actually I am already sinning like this for quite some time.
> It works, it is easy, I enjoy it.
>
> If somebody (and probably quite a few) have problems with this
> base elements can be specified individually:
>
> <AAA>
> 	<base alias="w3tr" href="http://www.w3.org/TR"/>
> 	<base alias="cot" href="http://www.w3.org/TR"/>
> 	<slink base="cot" href="xity" title="XLink visualiser"/>
> 	<slink base="w3tr" href="xmlbase" title="XML Base Working Draft"/>
> 	<slink base="w3tr" href="xlink" title="XML Link Working Draft"/>
> </AAA>
>
> With best regards,
>
> Nikita Ogievetsky
> nogievet@offsight.com
> http://www.cogx.com
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      • From: "Ogievetsky, Nikita" <nikita.ogievetsky@csfb.com>



 

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