Hi Swithun Obviously the URL needs escaping in the METS document to make it valid XML.
But it sounds like this is passing through unescaped and therefore ingesting managed content datastreams that contain query parameters then doesn't work from what you are saying? It would be useful to verify if that's the case with FOXML ingests also. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Swithun Crowe [mailto:c...@st-andrews.ac.uk] Sent: 04 May 2011 17:36 To: Support and info exchange list for Fedora users. Subject: [fcrepo-user] unescaping URLs of datastreams Hello I would find it useful if the URLs of datastreams could be unescaped. E.g. if a METS document has a datastream like: <fileGrp ID="..."> <file OWNERID="M" ...> <FLocat xlink:href="http://example.com/ds.php?arg1=val1&arg2=val2"; .../> the URL would be transformed into: http://example.com/df.php?arg1=val1&arg2=val2 Currently, the escaped & is left as it is, so fetching the datastream can fail. I don't know if this is a deliberate thing, to stop people from putting in funny URLs, or something that might modified in future. Might people be depending on the current behaviour of URLs not being unescaped? A solution could be to modify METSFedoraExtDODeserializer.java: // need this class import org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils; // and then round about line 534 for METS's FLocat element String dsLocation = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(grab(a, m_xlink.uri, "href")); I'm not sure how to integrate another jar (Apache's commons-lang.jar) into the Fedora build, so I can't provide a working patch. But putting the URL string through unescapeXml should do it. Swithun. -- The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: SC013532 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
