XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Both of these failures in BaseURITest should be repaired now. Both were 
cases where I had checked in the test case but not the fix.
One was a longstanding bug I only recently discovered involving alleged 
URLs that begin with a colon. The other was a very weird part of RFC 
3986 involving URLs that end with /.. Previously XOM was treating 
http://www.example.com/test/.. as equivalent to 
http://www.example.com/test/ It is now treating this as the same 
http://www.example.com/ It appears that the specs are ambiguous on this 
point, and you're allowed to go either way, so I decided that the new 
behavior satisfied the principle of least surprise.

These are both extreme corner cases that are unlikely to arise in 
practice unless someone is being deliberately perverse.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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