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>The SAX 2.0 API documentation is silent on this, but the method
>descriptions in org.xml.sax.Locator have always led me to believe that the
>location should be the entity in which the reference was encountered,
Xerces seems to disagree: it returns the entity whose start or end is
being reported. So I guess one can't rely on it.
But it's worse: the reason I'm doing this is to determine the current
base URI, taking account of entity boundaries and xml:base. This
seems to be impossible, since the locator returns the system ID of
the entity, not its URI. So if there is http redirection (e.g. a
directory referred to without its trailing slash) the locator provides
the unredirected value. As far as I can see, it's impossible to
calculate the base URI using SAX.
Are there any plans to directly support base URIs in a future version
of SAX?
-- Richard
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