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RE: [xml-dev] XML Base (RE: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pace with James C

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To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML Base (RE: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pace with James Clark)
From: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@cardiff.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:32:30 -0700

Simon wrote:
>I think XML Base is useful for people too lazy to type complete URIs.

That's true, but there's a bigger use case. For documents that are
relocatable between local and remote (say file: and http: schemes), relative
URIs are a necessity. Not surprisingly, this is a common request in XML
forms processing.

.micah

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