XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Michael Kay scripsit:

> 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.

For XOM this would need to be a WeakHashMap so that when the Node becomes
garbage, Java doesn't hang on to the entry in the mapping table.

(I don't know whether this would benefit Saxon or not.)

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