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Subject: XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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  • From: John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
  • To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] XSLTransform constructors are flawed
  • Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:29:14 -0400

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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