How to resolve relative paths

[mildred]

In streamed DOM, there could be relative URLs, how to resolve them?

It seems there should be a way to ensure that the relative paths refer to the resources relative to the DOM streamed view location instead of being relative to the page that embeds it.

Use case : I want to stream/include a component that reference an image. The component references the image as a relative path to the component HTML markup.

Back in the days of XML, there was a xml:base attribute that could alter the base path used to compute relative URLs on the XML subtree. In HTML, there is only a tag in the HEAD for that unfortunately.

[noamr]

Though I can totally see the use case, this was the approach in <link rel=import> and it made everything very complicated...
Patches are by design an include of sorts rather than an import. I think the way to achieve this would be a server or service-worker utility that determines which paths need to be relative to the patch source.