XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com]

I'm sending this again. It didn't seem to come through earlier...

Nils Kilden-Pedersen/IT/CF/CCI wrote on 03/23/2004 09:29:47 AM:

> How about making it explicit, i.e. adding a boolean argument: 
> preserveBaseURI. Would that work?
> 
> Nils
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Mike Fitzgerald writes:

> So upon detachment, an xml:base="{baseURI}" is written on the detached 
> elemen
> t? 
> This would make the baseURI explicit and leave less room for astonishment.

But then if I build from a file which has no base attributes on any of the
elements (original.xml), then detach a element from it and serialize it to
a file (say new_document.xml), then run new_document.xml back through Builder
then I have a base attribute of file://{path}/original.xml on the root 
element.
Yuck! I don't think generating something that wasn't there originally is a
good idea.

Brad