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   Re: [xml-dev] Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?

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Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:

> Is that an indication that the WG did really want to allow relative URIs

Yes.
> or does "URI reference" have a different meaning in the namespaces
> specification?

No.

> Also, this doesn't seem to be coherent either with WXS' definition of
> anyURI
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/#anyURI that says:
>
> "anyURI represents a Uniform Resource Identifier Reference (URI). An
> anyURI value can be absolute or relative..."

What's the problem here -- is it the use of '(URI)' -- I guess this
should have been (URI reference).

> If the W3C has another definition of what are URIs and URI references
> than the IETF

It doesn't.

ht
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