XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 12:04 AM +0100 5/31/03, Janek Bogucki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> BaseRelativeResolver has a bug in the form of an uninitialized field 'base':
>
> class BaseRelativeResolver implements EntityResolver {
>
>     private URL base;
>
>     public BaseRelativeResolver(String base) {
>
>         if (base == null) return;
>         try {
>             URL u = new URL(base);
>         }
>         catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
>           // can't do anything; just use defaults for all resolutions
>         }
>     }


Hmm, that's weird. It does look broken, but everything still seems to 
work. I wonder if I can get rid of that class now? Possibly, it was 
needed before I let documents know their base URIs. Have you actually 
got some code that doesn't work as a result of this bug?
--

  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
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