XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> 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.

Fair enough.

> 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?

Not that I can think of, but base URI serialization *is* an important
feature.

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