[XOM-interest] Problem with "Missing scheme inabsolute URI reference"

Michael Kay mike at saxonica.com
Thu Jan 1 19:16:07 EST 2009


> I have an equivocal relationship with Xerces - although we 
> appreciate it as a high-quality comprehensive tool it is not 
> at all easy to navigate and configure. Before XOM I used to 
> try to wrap it as a subclassable parser and it wasted a lot 
> of time - incompatible versions - difficulty of distribution 
> (alathough maven has made a big difference). Problems like 
> today's bug wasted a lot of time.

The version of Xerces bundled with JDK 1.6 seems to be very buggy. I'm not
sure if that's the version you are using here. The free-standing Apache
version is much better (as is the JDK 1.5 version).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



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