>
> >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
