XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> There are basically two approaches to this, and they are distinguished 
> thusly
> :
> 
> Should an element created in memory (i.e. not parsed) retain the base 
> URI of its parent when detached?

Or skip this automagical stuff and have a source URI property that doesn't
change on attachment/detachment.

    setSourceURI(String uri) - sets the source URI property. Set by Builder,
        XIncluder, etc.
    String getSourceURI() - gets the source URI property (doesn't resolve
        anything or apply any algorithm)
    String getBaseURI() (or a better name might be resolveBaseURI) -
        resolve the base URI
    
setSourceURI/getSourceURI are a simple setter and a getter. The node retains
the source URI until explicitly changed by a call to setSourceURI, nothing
automagically!  getBaseURI contains all the logic for resolving the base URI.
If a application doesn't like the algorithm used by getBaseURI it has access
to all the info. it needs to apply it's own resolution algorithm thru
getSourceURI, getParent, getAttributes, etc.

Brad