XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

>     *  The base URI handling has been modified as follows:
>          1. getBaseURI() always returns an absolute URI or the empty 
> string if the base URI is not known. Other than the empty string it 
> never returns a relative URI. It never returns null.

Why return the empty string for unknown rather than null?  This seems to
me to be a paradigm case for null, if not indeed an exception.

>          2. The base URI of an element does not change when it is 
> detached or copied.
>          3. The setBaseURI() method only accepts an absolute URI. It 
> throws a MalformedURIException if you attempt to pass it a relative 
> URI, or a URI with a fragment identifier. (Relative URIs are still 
> allowed in xml:base attributes.)

Good.  The base URI should always be absolute.

>    * DOMConverter and several methods have been rewritten with 
> non-recursive algorithms. Some work remains to be done in this area, 
> however.

Hurrah!

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