XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> As an aside, the other thing i noticed is that URLEncoder.encode(char) 
> replaces " " with "+" rather than "%20". 


+ is a special case in the URL spec. You can use + or %20. They mean the 
same thing.

> This seems kind of weird in the context of file URLs, since file URLs 
> never have space-separated name-value components. Plus, on 

The escaping is not just for name-value components. It can be used in 
the path component of a URL as well.

> MacOSX files containing spaces are legal.

Even though spaces are legal file name characters on most modern 
operating systems, they are not legal in URLs, and URLs are not file 
names. File names can also contain other characters that are illegal in 
URLs, for instance non-ASCII characters, and these too must be escaped.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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