XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Andrew Thompson wrote:


>                 InputStream fis = new FileInputStream(a_inputFile);
>                 Reader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis, 
> "UTF-8"));
>                 Document unresolved = new Builder().build(r);

Because you've built from a Reader rather than a File, there's no base 
URI. Hence relative URIs cannot be resolved. To fix it you need to do:

unresolved.setBaseURI("file:///whatever/");

This should probably be a FAQ. And you're right, the error message could 
perhaps be more helpful. I'll see if I can improve that. The question is 
whether I can easily distinguish this case (no base URI) from the case 
of a malformed base URI. I probably can, but I'm not sure yet.

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