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	19 Jan 2005 09:10:23 -0000
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@
 	// - Map reserved and non-ASCII characters to %HH
 
 	try {
-	    if (baseURI == null) {
+	    if (baseURI == null && XmlParser.uriWarnings) {
 		warn ("No base URI; hope this SYSTEM id is absolute: "
 			+ systemId);
 		return new URL (systemId).toString ();
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	19 Jan 2005 09:10:23 -0000
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
 
 package gnu.xml.aelfred2;
 
+import gnu.java.net.GetSystemPropertyAction;
+
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.CharConversionException;
 import java.io.EOFException;
@@ -63,6 +65,7 @@
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.security.AccessController;
 
 // maintaining 1.1 compatibility for now ...
 // Iterator and Hashmap ought to be faster
@@ -89,8 +92,15 @@
     // avoid slow per-character readCh()
     private final static boolean USE_CHEATS = true;
 
-
-    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+    // Emit warnings for relative URIs with no base URI.
+    static boolean uriWarnings;
+    static
+    {
+      String key = "gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.uriWarnings";
+      GetSystemPropertyAction a = new GetSystemPropertyAction(key);
+      uriWarnings = "true".equals(AccessController.doPrivileged(a));
+    }
+    
     // Constructors.
     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
@@ -2807,9 +2817,11 @@
 	    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;