XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 5:19 PM -0500 3/31/04, jcowan AT reutershealth.com wrote:

> No.  Rule 2 simply means that if element A incorporates element B
> (having no xml:base attribute of its own) from a different entity, and
> B's parent in that entity is C, then C's base URI is preferred to A's.
> But if there is no C, or its base URI is not known, then Rule 3 tells
> us to use A's base URI for B.

Damn, this is painful. I don't suppose there's a test suite for XML 
Base anywhere, is there?

I'm not sure that's what rule 3 says, though perhaps that was the 
intent. If rule 3 applies, the base URI is "the base URI of the 
document entity or external entity containing the element." It is 
*not* the base URI of element A. Rather it is the base URI of the 
entity containing element A. Element A can have an xml:base attribute 
that changes its base URI. However, this would not change the base 
URI of a document or external entity.

It still seems to me that in the language of the spec xml:base 
attributes from outside the element's own entity do not count. What 
am I missing? 


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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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