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RE: SAX Locator vs {start,end}Entity

• To: "'Richard Tobin'" <richard@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: SAX Locator vs {start,end}Entity
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:45:41 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <200302201558.PAA24141@m...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> 
> >Why do you need to monitor the startEntity and endEntity 
> events to get 
> >the base URI?
> 
> Because I want to take account of xml:base.  The base URI of 
> an element is either:
> 
>  - the value specified by its xml:base attribute, if it has one, or
> 
>  - the base URI of its parent, if there wasn't an intervening entity
>    boundary, or
> 
>  - the retrieval URI of the containing entity.
> 

But why can't you achieve that by looking at the systemId() of the
Locator when startElement is called?

Michael Kay

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