XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Arjan Huijzer wrote:

> Why is this second parameter necessary? Can't the parser deduct the
> base URI from the filename of the XML file?

You're passing in an InputStream, not a File object. Therefore XOM has 
no way of telling what the location or name of the corresponding file 
is. (It would be nice if FileInputStream had a getURI() or getFile() 
method but it doesn't.)) Therefore it's looking in the current working 
directory rather than the one from the File object. Try this instead:

            Builder parser = new Builder();
            File input = new File("c:/temp/person.xml");
            Document doc = parser.build(input);

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