Re: [PATCH]: possible fixes for resolve-dtd-uris inconsistency

Michael Glavassevich wrote:

> The first (org.xml.sax.package.html.diff) drops 
> DeclHandler.externalEntityDecl from the list of methods affected by the 
> resolve-dtd-uris feature.
> 
> The second (org.xml.sax.ext.DeclHandler.java.diff) aligns the 
> description of DeclHandler.externalEntityDecl with 
> DTDHandler.unparsedEntityDecl, requiring that the parser absolutize the 
> system identifier, though this is backwards incompatible and may affect 
> some real world users who expect the declared system identifier even if 
> it was always intended that the system id passed to 
> DeclHandler.externalEntityDecl be fully resolved.

I've committed the second patch (which Karl preferred as well).  This is a 
relatively peripheral part of SAX, so I think that we can allow the virtue 
of consistency -- and the Rule of Least Surprise -- to triumph.


Thanks,


David


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