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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.
I think that is what Gregory meant.
It would surprsie me to find a SAX parser that does it differently.
> 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?
In SAX2 extensions the EntityResolver2 interface has an "upgraded"
version of resolveEntity() which passes the baseURI.
Karl
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