> (This also raises an auxiliary question: Should SAML be
> xml:base-aware?
The W3C rules (for what it's worth) require every XML spec to be
xml:base-aware, even if they say "no special semantics."
I believe the intent is less that someone may define xml:base, but
rather that (as in xml dsig) you define an entity, &dsig, for the base,
so things like &disg;#x509data make sense.
SOAP, of course, does not allow DTD's, so no entitities, so there's no
gain. And using xml:base there might be confusing, since some SOAP
toolkits might want to use it themselves. (None that I know of, but
still...)
/r$
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