Re: Support for URL values for property "catalogs" in CatalogManager.properties

Just thought I'd mention that it should already be possible to do this
programmatically. The Catalog class has a parseCatalog(URL) method [1].

Thanks.

[1]
http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/apidocs/resolver/org/apache/xml/resolver/Catalog.html#parseCatalog(java.net.URL)

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]

Charles Dylan Shearer <[email protected]> wrote on 06/21/2008 09:32:43
AM:

> Currently, Resolver allows developers to use paths as values for the
> property "catalogs" in CatalogManager.properties.  I was wondering how
> you all felt about adding support for URLs in this property, so that
> users could specify exactly how catalogs are to be located: for
> example, "classpath:/com/package/catalog.xml" for catalogs on the
> classpath or "file:///directory/catalog.xml" for catalogs on the
> filesystem.
>
> I couldn't tell exactly from the documentation, but it seems that
> Resolver currently interprets these paths as referring to the
> filesystem.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
> Dylan