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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:13:52 +1000
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
To: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
Cc: commons-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: File URLs will be the death of me
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Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Alexander Pavlenko <alexander.pavlenko@db.com> was heard to say:
> | Excuse me if I say obvious things but maybe it will help.
> |
> | "file" URLs usually should have one or three slashes following the scheme 
> | name, not two.
> |
> | file:/path - means missing authority part
> | file:///path - means empty authority name
> |
> | Both of the above imply the default authority:
> |
> | file://localhost/path
> |
> | If you use two slashes it means that you specify the authority explicitly 
> | and in case of "file" scheme the authority means host name.
> 
> Yes, I understand the semantics. Unfortunately, file: URIs interact
> badly with Windows style path names.
> 
> | By the way, I also actively use CatalogResolver and have encountered many 
> | times that it returns incorrect URLs like
> | file://c:/sofefolder/...

Alexander, were you using the trunk of xml-commons
resolver? As Norm said, those general problems had
already been fixed recently and we had tested it
on Windows.

> Could you try the patch I provided? I believe that I've plugged that
> hole. But I've also believed that before.

At Apache Forrest i upgraded our resolver.jar to use
the current xml-commons trunk (r395116). Fine for UNIX.
I asked our Windows users to test and yes, all is well.
However, we don't specifically use "user.dir" so i suppose
that we are just reporting that the new patch didn't break
other functionality.

-David

> | and...
> |
> | couldn't you use java.io.File.toURI()?  (J2SE1.4!)
> 
> I think XML Commons is still expected to support 1.3.
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
> -- 
> Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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