filter for reading the content of a XML document

input is a root node with the source as an attibute the text is read, the encoding scheme is parsed and selected and the input is translated into the internal UTF-8 string representation

filter for reading the content of an external XML entity

see also : getXmlContents

the hard io operations

for reading a file or accessing a document via http input must be a root node with a source attribute specifying the URI

guessEncoding uses encoding attribute and content to determine the encoding scheme.

it's assumed that an encoding spec has been tried to parse before guessing the encoding.

UTF-8 is the default encoding

other supported encodings are ISO-8859-1 (also known as ISO-Latin-1), US-ASCII, UTF-16 or ISO-10646-UCS-2, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE

filter command for saving and restoring the base URI

• 1.parameter f : the filter that possible changes the base URI
• returns : a filter with the same effect as f, that restores the base URI after application of f

read the current base URI

see also : setBaseURI

set the base URI, all other URIs are handled relative to this base URI

the default base URI is file:///<current-working-dir>/

see also : getBaseURI

transform an URI into an absolut URI using the current base URI

• 1.parameter uri : the URI as string
• returns : the absolut URI as string or "" in case of an error