Base URI for relative external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation paths

[Eric van der Vlist <vd...@dyomedea.com>]

Hi,

I am not sure if this should be considered as a bug or just documented 
on your site, and I prefer to post the question on this list than to 
enter a new bug...

I have noticed that the SAX property
http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation
is resolved using a base URI which is the base URI of the instance 
document rather than the current directory (when in command line).

This behavior is surprising for the user which parses from the command 
line "../foo.xml" with a noNamespaceSchemaLocation set to "bar.xsd" and 
usually expecting that "bar.xsd" is searched in the current directory.

It can be guessed from the note: "The syntax is a same as for the 
noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute that may occur in an instance 
document: e.g."file_name.xsd". The user may specify only one XML Schema. 
For more information see the documentation for the 
http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation property 
" but could also be explicitely mentioned ;=) ...

Thanks

Eric

PS: thanks for the level of schema support you've reached in Xerces-J. I 
am doing quite a lot of work on W3C XML Schema and often need to check 
what I have understood in the rec and your implementation is the most 
complete and conform I have found so far.
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