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Re: Sun Resolver classes released
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sun Resolver classes released
- From: David Brownell <david-b at pacbell dot net>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 20:18:01 -0700
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200108/msg00148.html
[ I don't know if docbook-apps will bounce this or not, I'm not subscribed
and only found out about those classes through a roundabout channel ...
if it bounces, would you please forward this to the list? ]
> If you're using Saxon with these classes, beware of the following
> problem: AElfred, Saxon's default XML parser, has a serious bug in
> recent Saxon releases; it calculates the base URI of external entities
> incorrectly.
If the current AElfred software doesn't do this right, I want to know.
The current stuff ought to behave just fine; it wasn't absolutizing URIs
early enough (ancient bug, reported recently and fixed last month):
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/jaxp/
> To avoid this problem, I suggest that you use Xerces or any other JAXP
> compliant parser, instead of AElfred.
Instead of that rather elderly version of AElfred, that is ...
> This can be accomplished with
> the following options *to java*:
# Force Saxon to use a decent parser
DBFACTORY=gnu.xml.dom.JAXPFactory
SPFACTORY=gnu.xml.aelfred2.JAXPFactory
> I'm "this close" to a
> source code release with a BSD-like license. There's one more legal
> hurdle to do a backflip through.
What's the status of that? Backflips aren't that easy, not everyone
has the flexibility... :)
- Dave
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