XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> My thought is that the File object provides its own base URI. If you 
> pass a File object the base URI will be set on the resulting 
> document. This isn't true for a plain input stream created from a 
> file. Plus, I'd rather not ask the user to specify a file URI if they 
> don't really want to change the location. file URIs are very tricky 
> and platform dependent, and it's easy to get them wrong. I'm not sure 
> the File.toURL() method actually does get them right, but I suspect 
> it does a better job than mot users are likely to do by rolling their 
> own. Since the most common case is that the base URI is the URI of 
> the file itself, that's what XOM supports.

Speaking of tricky things, would there be a reason for an application to
set the base uri, as opposed to it only being set in Builder?

Brad