Hi Philipp, Philipp Wagner <philipp.wag...@med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote on 04/16/2009 08:59:58 AM:
> Michael Glavassevich schrieb: > > Hi Philipp, > > > > Philipp Wagner <philipp.wag...@med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote on 04/16/2009 > > 02:26:36 AM: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Michael Glavassevich schrieb: > >> > The XML Schema specification [1] places no requirements on processors to > >> > support xml:base. It's not mentioned anywhere in the spec. So while > >> > Xerces doesn't support it in its schema processor I wouldn't necessarily > >> > call it a limitation. > >> > >> Thanks for your reponse. I already expected it to be that way :( Still, > >> the current behavior is confusing, as xml:base is considered for > >> XInclude but not for Schema inclusion, i.e. the same relative path > >> inside a XML document will resolve to two different locations when using > >> xml:base. > > > > XInclude was developed much later and actually does reference xml:base > > so was clearer that we were supposed to do something there. If you're > > interested in seeing this apply to schema processing too, you should > > open a feature request [1]. > > I did at > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1366 > > I understand that Xerces is doing nothing wrong here and I don't know > what the XML Schema Working Group thinks about it, so there might be > some more discussion with the authors of XML Schema needed (from what > I've seen it's not mentioned in the XML Schema 1.1 WD either). The XML Schema WG does have a public comments mailing list [1] and Bugzilla tracker [2]. It wouldn't hurt to raise this issue there. Discussion with the WG might result in improvements to the spec. > Philipp > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org Thanks. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/ [2] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/ Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
