XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> No, consider an external entity reference or an XInclude that loads 
> up a document containing only text, comments, and processing 
> instructions. These would have a base URI that differs from the base 
> of their parent element. So I think that setBaseURI does make sense 
> for these kinds of nodes. It only really doesn't make sense for 
> document type declarations and attributes.

So I thought also, but XML Base says (section 4.2, graf 1):

# Relative URIs appearing in an XML document are always resolved relative to
# either an element, a document entity, or an external entity. There is no
# provision for finer granularity, such as per-attribute, per-character, or
# per-entity base information. Neither internal entities, whether declared
# in the internal subset or in an external DTD, nor freestanding text (text
# not enclosed in an element) in an external entity, are considered to set
# a base URI separate from the base URI in scope for the entity reference.

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