Hi Chris.
Disclaimer: I am neither an URL nor an an XML expert.
The problem with your suggestion is:
a) Sun's URL class accepts (throws no MalformedURLException)
file:////home/foo
it adresses the file:
//home/foo
(which my bash accepts as well).
Furthermore: Not accepting superfluous slashes would not help the application in
which I found this problem.
b) Changing URL in a way that toString() returns the right value (that means not
swallowing the two slashes) would introduce an incompatibility with the JDK.
At last I find it better to fix URL's toString() because it seems so strikingly
wrong for me that in this scenario:
u = new URL("file:////home/bla");
u2 = new URL(u.toString());
u and u2 do not resolve the same file.
Any other opinions?
cu
Robert
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