Let's roll back (Xerces of course) :) Carsten
> -----Original Message----- > From: Geoff Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Xerces 2.6 bug (was Re: Build failure because of > proxy-firewall) > > > Geoff Howard wrote: > > Bruno Dumon wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 17:47, Timothy Larson wrote: > >> > >>> --- Geoff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Can someone try rolling back Xerces to prior version to make sure > >>>> that's the issue? Of course, you'll have to unplug from the network > >>>> before building or you won't notice the issue. I looked briefly at > >>>> Xerces' site last night and didn't find any clues this was > >>>> intentionally changed in the latest release but there were some > >>>> bugfix descriptions which could point to an accidental new problem. > > ... > > > >> If I unplug my network connection, I also get the UnkownHostException. > >> > >> I reverted to xercesImpl-2.5.0.jar, left the rest the same, and now it > >> works for me. So seems like a bug in Xerces to me. > > > > I attempted directly using the DOMParser class directly as they > > recommend in the FAQ with mixed results. I've filed a bug with more > > details at Xerces bugzilla: > > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25043 > > > > I wasn't able to spend more time digging around or coming up with an > > isolated test case for them - any takers? > > The bugzilla entry and this discussion: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.xerces-j.devel/475 > indicate that this is now fixed in xerces cvs. > > I tried the solution they suggested as a workaround for 2.6 with no luck > (though it may be that I don't know my way around XNI). > > So, do we > 1) Ignore the bug until a later version of xerces is released? (the bug > is that the build fails without an internet connection due to the dtd > resolving in web.xml) > 2) Roll back to 2.5? (I assume this would unfix other bugs?) > 3) Use a dated version of xerces from cvs until their next release. > > WDYT? > > Geoff >
