[oXygen-user] Support for jar: URNs?

[Radu Coravu]

Hi Eliot,

If the catalog file is located directly on the local drive, relative 
references to it are interpreted as having the same protocol (which is 
the "file" protocol). I consider this to be correct.
I understand that you would like relative references like this: 
"test.zip!/catalog.xml" to be expanded to absolute URLs having the 
protocol something like "zip:file" but this is not quite easy or correct 
to accomplish and would require some patches to the Xerces catalog resolver.

What I tested and could be used as a workaround:
Have the catalog file located directly inside the zip (or jar).
For example in the catalogs list I referenced it like this:

> zip:file:/D:/projects/eXml/samples/dita/flowers/concepts/test.zip!/catalog.xml

and it contained a relative reference like this:

>  <uri
>         name="http://test/res/plugin/dita4publishers/net.sourceforge.dita4publishers.common.xslt/xsl/lib/relpath_util.xsl"
>         uri="personal.xsl"/>

which got solved also inside the same zip.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com


On 11/14/2011 8:30 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an entity resolution catalog that resolves to files in
> a jar file.
>
> I can get it to work as expected if the URL to the jar is absolute, e.g.:
>
> <uri
> name="rsuite:/res/plugin/dita4publishers/net.sourceforge.dita4publishers.com
> mon.xslt/xsl/lib/relpath_util.xsl"
>
> uri="jar:file:///Users/ekimber/workspace/rsuite-dita-support-quickfix/java/l
> ib/dita4publishers-rsuite-plugin.jar!..."/>
>
> However, a relative URL (relative to the catalog), does not work.
>
> Is it possible for Oxygen to make a relative URL part of a jar: URN resolve
> relative to the catalog?
>
> This is to support development of XSLTs that import modules that, when
> deployed into the RSuite CMS, will be referenced by an RSuite-specific URN.
> The catalog allows the XSLTs to be developed without having to swap
> different URNs in and out. I'm trying to set up a system whereby developers
> can get the jar with the included modules from Ivy and then, by using an
> invariant catalog, have the inclusions work.
>
> I can't think of another way of doing it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> E.
>
>