Re: [xml-dev] xml:base and fragments

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>]

On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 08:53 -0400, John P. McCaskey wrote:
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> In this excerpt from example.xml
> 
> <div xml:base="http://www.dictionary.com/a.html";>; <p> <ref 
> target="#apple">Apple</ref> </p> </div>
> 
> does #apple refer to an element in example.xml that has id="apple" or
> to 
> http://www.dictionary.com/a.html#apple?
> 
> The first, right?

In slightly different language...

"example.xml" happens to be how you (the software) obtained a copy of a
representation of "a.html".

The relative URI reference #apple "points" to a location within the
representation you have, whose canonical URI is given to us as http://w
ww.dictionary.com/a.html regardless of how you came to find it.

There's no expectation in HTML at least that following a link to #apple
will involve fetching a different resource - rather, base, and
xml:base, tell us where we really are when we do that.

Liam

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