Re: [xep-support] XEP 3.6: error in the resolution of relative URLs in the resource scheme

From: Werner Donné (werner.donne@re.be)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 01:04:01 PDT

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    Thank you for ths fix Nikolai. It is not a major issue.
    It is not blocking me in any way.

    Regards,

    Werner.

    Nikolai Grigoriev wrote:
    > Werner,
    >
    > after analyzing the issue a bit, I realized that there is no chance
    > to get relative URLs in entities work properly when the document
    > system ID is expressed as 'resource:' URL. The best thing we
    > can do is to enable _absolute_ 'resource:' URLs in external
    > entities, so that you could write
    >
    > <!ENTITY local SYSTEM "resource:/fonts.local.ent">
    > <!ENTITY mt SYSTEM "resource:/monotype.ent">
    >
    > and still have your entities stored separately in the Jar file.
    >
    > XEP 3.6.1 is just released with these changes incorporated.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Nikolai Grigoriev
    > RenderX
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Werner Donné" <werner.donne@re.be>
    > To: "XEP Support" <xep-support@renderx.com>
    > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:42 AM
    > Subject: [xep-support] XEP 3.6: error in the resolution of relative URLs in the resource scheme
    >
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > Thank you for implementing the URL feature.
    >
    > There is, however, an error when relative URLs must be resolved. I have put my
    > XEP configuration in a jar and added the latter to the classpath. The
    > com.renderx.xep.ROOT property is set to "resource:/", which corresponds to the
    > way the jar was made. In the etc/fonts.xml file in it I have the following:
    >
    > <?xml version="1.0"?>
    > <!DOCTYPE fonts
    > [
    > <!ENTITY local SYSTEM "fonts.local.ent">
    > <!ENTITY mt SYSTEM "monotype.ent">
    > ]>
    >
    > ...
    >
    > <fonts>
    > &local;
    >
    > ...
    > </fonts>
    >
    > The local entity reference can't be resolved. The following stack trace is produced:
    >
    > java.lang.RuntimeException: cannot parse resource:/etc/fonts.xml:
    > java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: fonts.local.ent
    > at com.renderx.fonts.Finder.init(Unknown Source)
    > at com.renderx.fonts.Finder.init(Unknown Source)
    > at com.renderx.xep.Driver.init(Unknown Source)
    > at com.renderx.xep.Driver.init(Unknown Source)
    > at be.re.tools.XEP.main(XEP.java:294)
    > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    > at
    > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    > at
    > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
    > at be.re.tools.NetWrapper.main(NetWrapper.java:20)
    >
    > It seems to consider the system id of the "local" entity as an absolute URL. The base
    > URL for resolving "fonts.local.ent" is "resource:/etc/fonts.xml". Hence, the resolution
    > should yield "resource:/etc/font.local.ent". This seems to be an EntityResolver issue.
    >
    > If the entity reference is removed it works, but then I don't have my local fonts entity
    > of course. The good news is anyway that there is a work-around, since one can always
    > inline the entity.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Werner. 

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