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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sun Resolver classes released
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200108/msg00148.html [ I don't know if docbook-apps will bounce this or not, I'm not subscribed and only found out about those classes through a roundabout channel ... if it bounces, would you please forward this to the list? ] > If you're using Saxon with these classes, beware of the following > problem: AElfred, Saxon's default XML parser, has a serious bug in > recent Saxon releases; it calculates the base URI of external entities > incorrectly. If the current AElfred software doesn't do this right, I want to know. The current stuff ought to behave just fine; it wasn't absolutizing URIs early enough (ancient bug, reported recently and fixed last month): http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/jaxp/ > To avoid this problem, I suggest that you use Xerces or any other JAXP > compliant parser, instead of AElfred. Instead of that rather elderly version of AElfred, that is ... > This can be accomplished with > the following options *to java*: # Force Saxon to use a decent parser DBFACTORY=gnu.xml.dom.JAXPFactory SPFACTORY=gnu.xml.aelfred2.JAXPFactory > I'm "this close" to a > source code release with a BSD-like license. There's one more legal > hurdle to do a backflip through. What's the status of that? Backflips aren't that easy, not everyone has the flexibility... :) - Dave
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