This code would fail to construct a good Windows file: URL because it misses out the "/" after the "file:".
Cheers, E. ---- Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com On 3/14/16, 5:02 AM, "Kendall Shaw" <basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of kendall.s...@workday.com> wrote: >I remember trying to figure out if the catalog files are supposed to be >URIs or file paths (in commons resolver), and I think it was >Catalog.parseCatalogFile that had a problem. It tries essentially: > >catalogPath = path.replace(‘\\', ‘/‘) > >new URL(baseURL, catalogPath) > >and if that is a malformed URL, it tries: > >new URL(“file:”, catalogPath) > >So, with a canonical windows file path, the URL that it uses is: > >file:c:/somewhere/some.file > > > > >And then later somewhere that URL is not resolved. > >Kendall > >On 3/13/16, 12:27 AM, "basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on >behalf of Eliot Kimber" <basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on >behalf of ekim...@contrext.com> wrote: > >>I was just trying that now (the trailing quote was my typo but was also a >>red herring). >> >>Yes, the value must be a URL and I've verified that using file:/c:/... >>works. >> >>I'm trying to put together a code patch that does this automatically when >>a normal filename is specified because this is pretty bad Simon Says >>behavior. It doesn't help that the Javadoc for the Apache CatalogManager >>isn't itself explicit that the catalog files property is in fact URLs, >>not >>OS-specific file paths. >> >>Cheers, >> >>E. >> >>---- >>Eliot Kimber, Owner >>Contrext, LLC >>http://contrext.com >> >> >> >> >>On 3/13/16, 5:19 PM, "Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" >><basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of >>gerrit.imsi...@le-tex.de> wrote: >> >>>Hi Eliot, >>> >>>I didn¹t recently try it on Windows myself, but just two observations. >>> >>>On 13.03.2016 01:13, Eliot Kimber wrote: >>>> CATFILE = C:/workspace/DITA-OT2.x/catalog-dita.xml" >>> >>>There is a trailing quote sign here, is this intentional? Don¹t know the >>>effects of unbalanced quotes here. >>> >>>In any case, it might be necessary to give the location as a file: URI, >>>as in file:///C:/workspace/DITA-OT2.x/catalog-dita.xml >>>Did you already try that? >>> >>>Gerrit >>> >> >>
