XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 5:06 PM +0200 9/25/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:

>  On Element and Document shall it try to resolve absent or relative 
> URIs using the parent's base URI? If yes, how does an application 
> retrieve the actual base URI it has just set?

I'm not sure. More good questions.

> Maybe Node needs a resolveBaseURI() method, get/setBaseURI being 
> only defined by ParentNode. Another possibility would be for 
> getBaseURI() to do the resolution while readAttribute("xml:base") 
> returns the actual local value.

Possible.

> How will the Serializer deal with base URIs? It can't use 
> getBaseURI() if this method resolves the URI using the parent's. 
> It'll need direct acces to the actual string value (possibly null or 
> relative).

That's easy. Since Serializer is in the nu.xom package I can expose 
the extra information through a package-protected method or field as 
necessary.
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