Index: gnu/xml/aelfred2/SAXDriver.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/gnu/xml/aelfred2/SAXDriver.java,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 SAXDriver.java
--- gnu/xml/aelfred2/SAXDriver.java	23 Dec 2004 22:38:43 -0000	1.1
+++ gnu/xml/aelfred2/SAXDriver.java	18 Jan 2005 17:44:59 -0000
@@ -168,6 +168,21 @@
     private String			nsTemp [];
     private NamespaceSupport		prefixStack;
 
+    // Emit warnings for relative URIs with no base URI.
+    private static boolean uriWarnings;
+    static
+    {
+      try
+        {
+          String key = "gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.uriWarnings";
+          uriWarnings = "true".equals(System.getProperty(key));
+        }
+      catch (SecurityException e)
+        {
+          uriWarnings = false;
+        }
+    }
+
     //
     // Constructor.
     //
@@ -645,7 +660,8 @@
 
 	try {
 	    if (baseURI == null) {
-		warn ("No base URI; hope this SYSTEM id is absolute: "
+		if (uriWarnings)
+		  warn ("No base URI; hope this SYSTEM id is absolute: "
 			+ systemId);
 		return new URL (systemId).toString ();
 	    } else
Index: gnu/xml/aelfred2/XmlParser.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/gnu/xml/aelfred2/XmlParser.java,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 XmlParser.java
--- gnu/xml/aelfred2/XmlParser.java	23 Dec 2004 22:38:43 -0000	1.1
+++ gnu/xml/aelfred2/XmlParser.java	18 Jan 2005 17:45:01 -0000
@@ -89,8 +89,21 @@
     // avoid slow per-character readCh()
     private final static boolean USE_CHEATS = true;
 
-
-    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+    // Emit warnings for relative URIs with no base URI.
+    private static boolean uriWarnings;
+    static
+    {
+      try
+        {
+          String key = "gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.uriWarnings";
+          uriWarnings = "true".equals(System.getProperty(key));
+        }
+      catch (SecurityException e)
+        {
+          uriWarnings = false;
+        }
+    }
+    
     // Constructors.
     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
@@ -2807,9 +2820,11 @@
 	    if (ids [1].indexOf ('#') != -1)
 		handler.verror ("SYSTEM id has a URI fragment: " + ids [1]);
 	    ids [2] = handler.getSystemId ();
-	    if (ids [2] == null)
-		handler.warn ("No base URI; hope URI is absolute: "
-			+ ids [1]);
+	    if (ids [2] == null && uriWarnings)
+          {
+            handler.warn ("No base URI; hope URI is absolute: "
+                          + ids [1]);
+          }
 	}
 
 	return ids;