Re: [Classpathx-xml] Strange exception when running checkstyle

[Chris Burdess]

David Brownell wrote:
> > > The correct fix is to the application software which didn't
> > > provide a base URI when building an InputSource.  That'd be
> > > some puppycrawl config loader code, I'd guess.
> >
> > The patch Mark posted earlier works great for me. What do you think
> > when we just apply it ?
>
> I think the two bugs in that puppycrawl code should get
> fixed.  Then there will be no problems at all.
>
>  -  It's completely bogus to turn arbitrary warnings
>     into fatal errors as a default policy.
>
>  -  And it's equally bogus to call an XML parser with
>     borked inputs, expecting it guess correctly about
>     the base URI to use when resolving.

Elsewhere in the GNU JAXP code, when we're given a relative URI in the 
absence of any other context, we assume it's a file URL relative to the 
current directory. I believe that other JAXP implementations also make 
this assumption.

Would this solution be acceptable for Ælfred?
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Chris Burdess