XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

Yep, this fixes it (apart from the separate  
Serializer.setOutputStream and fat Text issues).
Wolfgang.

On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:


> 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.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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