XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 1:44 PM -0800 2/4/04, Johan Strandberg wrote:
> Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
>
> >  I've also now fixed the failure in the XIncludeTest on Windows. 
> > This proved to be the hardest one to track down. It turned out 
> > there were actually two bugs on Linux which cancelled each other 
> > out. The different nature of file URLs on Windows, however, meant 
> > that platform only saw one bug, which was consequently exposed.
>
> Could you elucidate a bit, or give a reference? Sounds like 
> something worth knowing about.

It wasn't all that interesting. Depending on how you create a URL for 
a file in Java it can either end up being file:///path or file:/path 
on Unix. The mismatch meant a comparison was failing. On Windows, you 
always get file:/C:/path or something like that some there was no 
mismatch and the comparison succeeded.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA