Re: SAX 2.0 baseURI property was: Re: SAX 2.0 Enhancement proposal(2nd Ed)

[Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com>]

Jonathan Borden wrote:
> >
> > Can I take that as a vote for option (b) - the creation of a new
property,
> > leaving the systemId to contain just the system identifier from the xml
> > document?
>
> Yes, to be clear, and for reasons including this, but also for other
> reasons, SAX needs to have a standard way to communicate the base URI to
an
> application.
>
> > If we are going to have a property containing the baseURI, there
> > is no need to overload the systemId parameter with it.
>
> perhaps this is true. Given an (absolute URI form) systemId and a base
URI,
> cannot we -reconstruct- a relative URI used to get from the base URI to
the
> systemId in URI space: i.e.
>
> relativeURI = absolutizedSystemId - baseURI
>
> via an inverse of the rules that create: absolutizedSystemId = baseURI +
> relativeURI
>
> (where + and - are not literal string operations but rather represent the
> absolutization transform in RFC 2396)
>

Jonathan, I like this proposal... a lot.  Unless I am missing something I
imagine others will feel the same.  It has the advantage of leaving
EntityResolver, DTDHandler and Locator unchanged, but seems to provide the
required information.

When others have had a chance to respond I will re-amend my proposal.

Regards
Rob

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Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
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