Revert "Step changes to fix 889"

steps/src/main/xml/steps/load.xml

@@ -25,11 +25,7 @@ syntactic shortcut value).</para>
 <para>The document or documents identified by the
 <option>href</option> URI are loaded and returned. If the URI protocol
 supports redirection, then redirects <rfc2119>must</rfc2119> be
-followed. For XML documents, HTML documents, and text documents, the base
-URI property of the loaded document is set to the (resolved) value of 
-<option>href</option>. If <option>document-properties</option> provides 
-a value for “<literal>base-uri</literal>”, this value is the base URI of the document.
-</para>
+followed.</para>
 
 <para><error code="D0011">It is a <glossterm>dynamic error</glossterm>
 if the resource referenced by a <code>p:load</code> element does not exist

steps/src/main/xml/steps/set-properties.xml

@@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ properties, overwriting already existing values for a given key.
 If it is false, the document’s properties are replaced by
 the new set.</para>
 
-<para>If <option>properties</option> provides a value for “<literal>base-uri</literal>” the
-base URI property of the document node for XML documents, HTML documents, and text documents
-is changed to this new value.</para>
-
 <para><error code="D0070">It is a <glossterm>dynamic error</glossterm> if a value is 
 assigned to the <code>serialization</code> document property that cannot be converted 
 into <code>map(xs:QName, item()*)</code> according