[FOP-2153] FOP is too strict: URIs containting backslashes are not resolved in FOP 1.1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: unqualified
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: PC
• External issue ID: 54098
• Assignee: fop-dev
• Reporter: Dan Caprioara
• Created: 05/Nov/12 08:54
• Updated: 07/Nov/12 07:30
• Resolved: 07/Nov/12 07:30

Description

When publishing DITA or Docbook to PDF (on a Windows machine) there are created FO files containing references to images. Some of the references are respecting the URI syntax, others are using the backslash: "\". This is not under the control of the end users. The XSLT stylesheets from these documentation frameworks are generating these invalid URIs.

FOP 1.0 translated the back-slashses to forward slashes before attempting to parse the URIs.
FOP 1.1 kept this translation in: org.apache.fop.apps.FOURIResolver but not in:
org.apache.fop.fo.properties.URIProperty

I propose adding the following code in:
org.apache.fop.fo.properties.URIProperty.Maker.make(PropertyList, String, FObj)

....
value = value.replace('
', '/');
....

This will make FOP more compatible with the Docbook and DITA output.