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Re: SAX Locator vs {start,end}Entity

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• Subject: Re: SAX Locator vs {start,end}Entity
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:58:06 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <000601c2d8e6$88da49c0$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <000601c2d8e6$88da49c0$6401a8c0@pcukmka> you write:

>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.

-- Richard

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