Committee draft of genericode 1.0 does not support xml:base

["Anthony B. Coates (Miley Watts)" <abcoates@mileywatts.com>]

The committee draft of genericode 1.0 does not support xml:base.  It  
should be modified to do so.  The difficulty is that genericode documents  
potentially contain two kinds of URLs:

1. those used as URIs to identify code lists, etc.;
2. those used as suggested locations for retrieving other documents.

The appropriate bases for these two groups may sometimes be the same, but  
certainly won't always be the same.  As such, a choice needs to be made  
about which group to which to apply xml:base.  It is recommended that the  
second group of URLs, location URLs, are the ones to which xml:base  
applies.  Additionally, the spec should be tightened to say that canonical  
URIs (for identifying code lists and their versions, etc.) must be  
absolute URIs and not relative URIs.

Cheers, Tony.
-- 
Anthony B. Coates
Senior Partner
Miley Watts LLP
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