[Sax-devel] Defaulting to current directory

[Yuval O. <yu...@bl...>]

Hi folks,

 

I have a question on "correct" behavior of SAX parsers. Say you have a
directory with 2 files in it: doc.xml and doc.dtd. Doc.xml looks like this:

 

<!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "doc.dtd">

<doc/>

 

What should the following Java code do if run in the same directory as
doc.xml and doc.dtd? Should it be able to find doc.dtd?

 

Case 1 - SAX2:

XMLReader reader = .;

reader.parse(new InputSource(new FileInputStream("doc.xml")));

 

Case 2 - JAXP:

SAXParser parser = ...;

parser.parse(new FileInputStream("doc.xml"), new DefaultHandler());

 

Different parsers seem to exhibit different behavior. Piccolo currently
doesn't find the file in either case, since it doesn't assume a base URI.
Should I change this?

 

Thanks,

Yuval