[kaffe] Re: [Classpathx-xml] Unwanted SAXParseException

[David Brownell]

Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:21:35 -0700
> David Brownell <david-b at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's part of the reason why the SAX spec has long said specifically:
>>"An InputSource object belongs to the application: the SAX parser
>>shall never modify it in any way...".  (Which is what your patch
>>makes it do...)
>>
>>The right fix in this case is to your Resolver implementation,
>>not any parser, since any parser change is likely to break some
>>other application.
> 
> 
> Ito's  patch makes  gnujaxp  result  closer to  Sun's  and Apache's  sax
> parser, isn't it? 

I think IBM's original Apache code resolved against the current
file system directory (instead of just failing) ... breakage
that's obvious in environments without file systems, or parsers
that don't require java.io.File etc (like AElfred2).

It was more subtly broken when the base URI should have been some
http://... URI, or a different directory.  Apache folk weren't much
into bugfixing back when such bugs were first reported to them.
I'm pretty sure that Sun's original code didn't have such bugs.

That is, I think Ito's patch uses a different heuristic.  In the
case of this example, they'd act the same -- due to the specific
URIs in use.  But not in all cases, so it's not necessarily
going to be "closer" except in simple cases.


The basic issue is that applying _any_ heuristic at that level
is going to fail badly in some cases.  Throwing an exception is
at least an indication that the inputs were bad.  And AElfred2
was at least reporting a warning about what was wrong, before
throwing the exception.

- Dave