XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Laurent Bihanic <laurent.bihanic AT atosorigin.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> > setBaseURI() makes only sense for Element and Document nodes.
>
> 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.

How would the serializer deal with these? What if the parent element already 
has a xml:base attribute? I don't think it is allowed for an element to have 
several xml:base attributes.

Laurent