Re: Strange exception when running checkstyle

David Brownell wrote:
>> Elsewhere in the GNU JAXP code, when we're given a relative URI in the
>> absence of any other context, we assume it's a file URL relative to 
>> the
>> current directory.
>
> If so, that's "new"; the original code was pretty consistent
> about treating that as an error.

Yes, that's all new code.

>> I believe that other JAXP implementations also make
>> this assumption.
>
> So what do they do in execution contexts like an applet
> or other code without access to such a current filesystem
> directory to use?  Even if there _is_ such a directory,
> it might not be the right context.

In such cases a SecurityException would be thrown.
-- 
Chris Burdess