XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 10:20 AM -0500 6/9/04, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

> But is does change :-) Here's another use case, adding a base attribute to
> the root element in file://home/hip/text_xom/test.xml
>
> <root xml:base="www.acme.org"><foo><bah/></foo></root>
>
> Document
> --------
> root base uri=file:/home/hip/test-xom/www.acme.org
> foo base uri=file:/home/hip/test-xom/www.acme.org
> bah base uri=file:/home/hip/test-xom/www.acme.org

I'm sorry. I can't follow this. You're doing several weird things here:

1. www.acme.org is a relative URL that just happens to look like a 
host name. Did you mean to say http://www.acme.org? In which case 
you'd get very different results.

2. xml:base attributes are *not* equivalent to base URIs. They are 
not preserved when an element is detached.  You would get different 
behavior if you used setBaseURI instead.

3. I don't know what you mean by far base uri below. :-(


> After creation
> --------------
> far base uri=
>
> After appended to root
> ----------------------
> far base uri=file:/home/hip/test-xom/www.acme.org
>
> After removed from root
> -----------------------
> far base uri=file:/home/hip/test-xom/test.xml
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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