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The absolute base URI of this node or null
if undefined.
This value is computed according to . However, when the
Document
supports the feature "HTML" , the base URI is
computed using first the value of the href attribute of the HTML BASE
element if any, and the value of the documentURI
attribute from the Document
interface otherwise.
When the node is an Element
, a Document
or a a ProcessingInstruction
, this attribute represents
the properties [base URI] defined in . When the node is a
Notation
, an Entity
, or an
EntityReference
, this attribute represents the
properties [declaration base URI] in the . How will this be affected
by resolution of relative namespace URIs issue?It's not.Should this
only be on Document, Element, ProcessingInstruction, Entity, and
Notation nodes, according to the infoset? If not, what is it equal to
on other nodes? Null? An empty string? I think it should be the
parent's.No.Should this be read-only and computed or and actual
read-write attribute?Read-only and computed (F2F 19 Jun 2000 and
teleconference 30 May 2001).If the base HTML element is not yet
attached to a document, does the insert change the Document.baseURI?
Yes. (F2F 26 Sep 2001)