XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

>  > the
> > baseURI of each Node is almost always the same so
> > those 4 bytes could be reduced, 
> 
> This might need more elaboration. What would change? I don't 
> see how we 
> can support different base URIs on different elements without 
> carrying 
> around this field.

Saxon stores a node-to-base-URI mapping in a separate table. If a node has
no entry in that table, it looks for the base URI of the parent. Optimizes
for the most common case where all nodes in a document have the same base
URI.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/