Realative URI's with spaces in the 'base' URI.....

Visage · 8 May 2006 at 15:13

Im trying to use an xml file that has a reference within it to an xsd file in a schemaLocation element.

The xsd file is in the same directory as the xml file, so i've simply got:

Code:

<jxb:bindings schemaLocation="protocol.xsd" node="/xs:schema">

All works fine....until my source root is located in a path that has spaces in it. In other words, if the two files reside in c:/code, for example, all is well - the schemaLocation obviously gets internally tranlated to c:/code/protocol.xsd.

But if i then copy the code into "c:/My Code", for example, the xml becomes ill formed, as scemaLocation becomes "c:/My Code/protocol.xsd", with the space causing a problem.

Any thoughts on how to get around this? Is there a way to specify a URL encoded path that will be correct wherever i locate my source tree?

Damn you Microsoft - who needs spaces in pathnames anyway?

NathanE · 8 May 2006 at 15:32

"with the space causing a problem"? Can you expand on that a bit?

It's definately not malformed XML to have a space in an attribute's value.

It's hard to tell if this is a problem with your XML parser or file I/O method.

Dj_Jestar · 8 May 2006 at 15:34

urlencode() when writing the XML, then if need be urldecode() it after?

Visage · 8 May 2006 at 15:49

NathanE said:
"with the space causing a problem"? Can you expand on that a bit?

It's definately not malformed XML to have a space in an attribute's value.

It's hard to tell if this is a problem with your XML parser or file I/O method.

To summarise, my xml document contains a URI relative to the documents location. If the location is at a location whose path contains no spaces, all is well. If it is at a path that includes spaces, the combination of 'absolute path including spaces' + 'relative path' casuses a problem that obviously is not there where the absolute path does not contain spaces.

And the XML *is* malformed, as URI's cannot contain spaces.

Visage · 8 May 2006 at 15:55

Dj_Jestar said:
urlencode() when writing the XML, then if need be urldecode() it after?

The XML is a configuration file, so concepts such as urlencoding arent much use. Cheers for the suggestion though.

NathanE · 8 May 2006 at 16:01

Tried replacing the space with a %20?

Edit: Oh just read post above and get the feeling telling your customers to type %20 instead of space isn't an ideal solution...

Visage · 8 May 2006 at 16:10

NathanE said:
Tried replacing the space with a %20?

Edit: Oh just read post above and get the feeling telling your customers to type %20 instead of space isn't an ideal solution...

Its not so much that - its more that any developer should be able to check the code out from source control, run the build, and it auto-generates lots of Java classes that represent the various xml entities. Obviously saying to developers 'only check code out to paths that dont have spaces in them' isnt the best.

Ive done some looking around and it seems to be a bug in Sun's compiler - cheers for all your help.