XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold 
<elharo AT ibiblio.org>wrote:

> 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.
>

I understand.

BTW the processed XML (i.e. after the XInclude processing or building)
appears to have additional xml:base attribute(s) - I assume that is (a)
normal and (b) necessary or at least harmless.

P.


> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
> elharo AT ibiblio.org
>



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