12517 2011-04-18 06:39:39 +0000 from the wording here, it sounds like this whole 3.2.3.4 section belongs in the XML spec not the HTML spec. so why is it here if I must not use it in HTML documents? This /is/ an HTML spec after all... 2011-08-04 05:34:56 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED INVALID http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-xml:base-attribute-(xml-only) P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ayg jackalmage mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 47522 0 contributor 2011-04-18 06:39:39 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-xml:base-attribute-(xml-only) Comment: from the wording here, it sounds like this whole 3.2.3.4 section belongs in the XML spec not the HTML spec. so why is it here if I must not use it in HTML documents? This /is/ an HTML spec after all... Posted from: 71.56.141.103 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 47531 1 jackalmage 2011-04-18 16:25:22 +0000 XHTML is a serialization format for HTML, thus, the parsing of XML documents must be specified by HTML. 47533 2 ayg 2011-04-18 16:36:27 +0000 "HTML documents" means documents that were, for instance, created from pages served as text/html, as opposed to "XHTML documents". The requirement means that xml:base can only be used in XHTML documents, not (non-XML) HTML documents. It needs to be in the HTML spec because otherwise it would be invalid as XHTML, since anything not mentioned in the spec is invalid. The confusing thing here is that "HTML" can mean both "the abstract HTML language, which has both XML and non-XML serializations" and "the pre-XML serialization of HTML, as specified in the chapter 'The HTML syntax'". "HTML documents" here means the latter, not the former. But the HTML specification covers HTML in the former sense, including XHTML. 53967 3 mike 2011-08-04 05:34:56 +0000 mass-move component to LC1