XML Base is a World Wide Web Consortium recommended facility for defining base URIs for parts of XML documents.
XML Base recommendation was adopted on 2001-06-27.
The attribute xml:base may be inserted in XML documents to specify a base URI other than the base URI of the document or external entity. The value of this attribute is interpreted as a URI Reference as defined in RFC 3986 . It serves the function described in section 5.1.1 of RFC3986, establishing the base URI (or IRI) for resolving any relative references found within the effective scope of the xml:base attribute.
In namespace-aware XML processors, the "xml" prefix is bound to the namespace name http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace as described in Namespaces in XML . Note that xml:base can be still used by non-namespace-aware processors.
Famous quotes containing the word base:
“Time, force, and death
Do to this body what extremes you can,
But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)