XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks,
> I am trying to work out why it worked with DTD/ENTITYs and not with XInclude
> - presumably because the filename of the DTD was regarded as a baseURI or
> similar? The XML files starts:
>
> <!DOCTYPE template SYSTEM
> "src/main/resources/org/xmlcml/cml/converters/compchem/compchem.dtd" [...
>

It ultimately comes down to SAX and whether the SAX Locator interface
is able to determine a base URI. If it does, XOM uses that, but when
all you give it is an input stream it has no way of knowing.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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