RE: Likely bug when resolving relative paths for SYSTEM identifiers

[Brad O'Hearne]

Title: RE: Likely bug when resolving relative paths for SYSTEM identifiers

Pradeep,

 

Use:

 

<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "bar.dtd">

 

and then use an EntityResolver to return the fully qualified uri.  I had exactly the same issue.  This is what was recommended to me, and it works great. 

 

BradO

-----Original Message-----
From: Rathi, Pradeep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:59 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: Shah, Jignesh; Chu, Sharon
Subject: RE: Likely bug when resolving relative paths for SYSTEM identifiers

Hi Neil,

Appreciate you comments and I totally agree that the systemId should be a URI. However, the parser is not consistent in enforcing it. E.g. If I've a xml file in "C:\Test\" and have the corresponding DTD in "C:\" then the parser succeeds with the following DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "..\bar.dtd">

Further, if the DTD is not present at the expected location, in this scenario it's "C:\", the parser throws a SAXParseException stating that the file is not found. It's only if the you have too many of "..\" or "../", the parser chokes. So as a user, I would expect the parser rather than to hang, do one of the following:

1. Preferably, to enforce the condition that at all times the systemId is a URI.
2. If it's resolving relative path's that are not URI's then should throw a file not found error message under the above circumstances.

BTW, thanks for the backslashes tip :-)

Thanks,
Pradeep

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:07 AM
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> Subject: Re: Likely bug when resolving relative paths for SYSTEM
> identifiers
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> Hi Pradeep,
>
> The problem is that Xerces is expecting a URI, not a path
> (and especially
> not a Windows path) as a systemId.  i.e., the first thing not
> to do in a
> systemId is to use backslashes.  :-)
>
> Hope that helps,
> Neil
>
> Neil Graham
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> Phone:  416-448-3519, T/L 778-3519
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