XML Base Support
One of the additions to the XSLT 1.1 working draft was support for the W3C XML Base specification. As of this writing, the XML Base specification is in Proposed Recommendation form (dated 20 December 2000), and you can find the current version of this document at www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/.
This specification enables you to provide a base URI for XML and XSL documents, just like the HTML <BASE> element. (In fact, the HTML <BASE> element is the reason XBase exists—W3C is committed to giving XML all the power HTML 4.0 linking has, and then build on that.) As you recall, one of the properties of XSL elements is their base URI, and now you can use XML Base to set that URI. However, no XSLT processors that I know of support XML Base ...
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