[XERCESJ-953] context location bug

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.1
• Component/s: XInclude 1.0
• Environment: Tested and reproduced on Linux and Windows 2000. In both cases, i was actually using an Ant 1.6.1 installation.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Manos Batsis
• Created: 06/May/04 08:15
• Updated: 07/May/04 17:53
• Resolved: 07/May/04 17:53

Description

The following description was posted in xerces-j-user and uses windows path conventions.

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Description
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[[[
I'm trying to patch up an xinclude task to automate some stuff but have "context" problems. My project structure (fragment):

xclude
└───testfiles
│ include1.xml
│ init.xml

My initial document (init.xml) is just

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<test xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude">
<xi:include href="include1.xml" />
</test>

the include1.xml indeed exists in the same directory as the nitial document, however i get the following error:

[Warning] :3:44: Include operation failed, reverting to fallback. Re
source error reading file as XML (href='include1.xml'). Reason: C:\tools
\eclipse\workspace\xclude\include1.xml (The system cannot find the path
specified)

So, although the init.xml was read from

C:\tools\eclipse\workspace\xclude\testfiles

the processor looks for the included file in

C:\tools\eclipse\workspace\xclude

]]]

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Reproducing the problem
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//Java code:

System.setProperty( "org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration", "org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeParserConfiguration");

SAXParser parser = new SAXParser();
XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(
new FileOutputStream(this.out),
new OutputFormat("XML", this.encoding, this.indent));
parser.setDocumentHandler(serializer.asDocumentHandler());

// THIS IS WHERE THE BUG IS, SEE WORKAROUNDS
// this.in is a java.io.File object
parser.parse(new InputSource(new FileInputStream(this.in)));

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Workarounds (two)
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1) Modify the initial document (init.xml above) by adding an xml:base in it's documentElement, having the absolut path of the file as the value.

2) Change the problematic line:

parser.parse(new InputSource(new FileInputStream(this.in)));

to this (the following works fine):

parser.parse(new InputSource(this.in.getAbsolutePath()));

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Diagnosis
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My guess is this has something to do with the implementation of xml:base and the initial value that gets in xinclude processing, or some Locator problem?