[oXygen-user] Re: xml catalog relative path resolution

[George Cristian Bina]

Dear Alex,

Sorin's answer clarified also this, see
 > rewriteSystem, etc. that a relative path must be made absolute with
 > respect to the base URI in effect, that is
 > *_the URI of the catalog file_*
 > or the URI set by the xml:base attribute of the catalog elements.

All the catalog we ship in the oXygen frameworks folder and sub-folders 
use entries specified with relative URIs that are resolved against the 
URI of the catalog file that contains them. If you observe a different 
behavior, although I doubt that, then that would be a bug and we will 
appreciate if you can send us a sample and a short description to 
reproduce it.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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Alexander Voss wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the clarification. I read your message
> as saying that oXygen complies with the specification.
> However, as I see it this leaves an important question
> open: in the absence of an explicitly defined base URL,
> what is taken to be the base? The location of the XML
> catalogue or the current working directory? oXygen seems
> to use the latter whereas other tools seem to use the former.
> (e.g., Ant, see http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/xmlcatalog.html
> although this page does not say anything about the xml:base
> attribute???) If the specification does not define what base URI
> is used in the absence of an xml:base attribute then it is
> incomplete. I should either define a sensible default (such as
> the XML catalogue location) or declare this illegal (i.e. you
> must not have a relative URI if you don't specify a base URI).
> IMHO the former would be much more useful. I hope I haven't missed
> anything. If I am right about this is it not time to change the spec?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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>> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:18:36 +0100
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>> Hi,
>>
>> can anybody say what the resolution algorithm
>> is for resolving relative paths given in XML
>> catalogues? Or point me to a place that explains
>> this? All the examples I have found use absolute
>> paths but I want to be able to check the XML
>> catalogue into a repository which also contains
>> the DTD files, so people can check out the whole
>> thing and only need to register the XML catalogue
>> in their local preferences.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex
>>
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