XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 5:40 PM -0400 9/1/04, John Cowan wrote:

> File objects can't reliably be converted to a base URI either.

Just curious. Could you elaborate on this point? I know file URLs 
vary from one platform to the next, but within a program running on 
the same VM they seem to work. That is a file URL created by 
File.ToURL() can be used to resolve relative URLs within the document 
read from that file, a slong as the file doesn't move.

I suppose there might be problems if XOM serialized the files with 
extra xml:base attributes to try and preserve the base URI, and then 
that file got moved to a different system. Is there any other 
situation where file URLs created from java.io.File objects are 
likely to be a problem?
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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