- From: Edwin Goei <edwingo@sun.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:24:55 -0800
- To: Curt Arnold <carnold@houston.rr.com>
- CC: www-dom-ts@w3.org
Curt Arnold wrote: > > entitygetpublicid, notationgetsystemid > > These tests have been a subject of debate repeatedly on the www-dom-ts > mailing list. Crimson alone of the tested processors changes the relative > URI's in the source document to absolute URI's when retrieved by > Entity.getPublicId() and similar. While not expressly prohibited by the DOM > spec, there is nothing that would suggest to the user that it should be > anticipated. > > Edwin, it would be interesting to get your take on whether the returning > absolute URI's was intentional and any thought process behind it. I looked to see how crimson was resolving the URIs and it is in part of the code that originated before I started working on the parser. It's in Parser2.java which was based from an older version of the code. The original author, Dave Brownell, might be able to help. > [snip] Not sure whether I was supposed to comment on the other parts of your email. -Edwin
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