[Bodington-developers] Removal of System property (bodington.home)

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

I have had a quick hack at removing the system property bodington.home 
that is used by Bodington. The problem with using a System property is 
that if you have two copies of Bodington running in the same Servlet 
container they will share the value (bad).

The bodington.home property was almost exclusively used to load the 
DTDs. So I have moved the DTDs into the classpath and hacked up a new 
EntityResolver that looks in the classpath by default. This means that 
things like template compilation don't need to have properties set to work.

The correct way to solve this would have been to use a CatalogResolver 
(http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/resolver/) which I might sort 
out at some point down the road. Attached is my current patch for 
WebLearn HEAD at fixing this. I'll push it across to Bodington HEAD 
unless anyone has any objections.

NB: As a side note it seems that Bodington doesn't use the DOCTYPE 
declaration correctly and confuses the PUBLIC and SYSTEM attributes 
(look at any of the templates). I'm guessing this was done because the 
XML parser doesn't assume the SYSTEM DTD relative and so passes it 
through untouched.

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