[jdom-interest] TrAX feature strings

[Alex Rosen]

It doesn't look like others follow this rule. Looking at a couple of Xerces
features:

http://xml.org/sax/features/validation

http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/dynamic

Both of them give me a 404.

Alex

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> [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org]On Behalf Of Elliotte
> Rusty Harold
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: jdom-interest
> Subject: [jdom-interest] TrAX feature strings
>
>
> JDOMResult has the following field:
>
> public final static String JDOM_FEATURE =
>                        "http://org.jdom.transform.JDOMResult/feature";
>
> JDOMSource has:
>
>    public final static String JDOM_FEATURE =
>                        "http://org.jdom.transform.JDOMSource/feature";
>
>
> Five years of teaching people about namespaces has made me extremely
> leary of using any string that starts with "http://" and isn't
> resolvable.  I suggest we change the features strings to
> something like
> these:
>
> public final static String JDOM_FEATURE =
>
> "http://www.jdom.org/org.jdom.transform.JDOMResult/feature";
>
> public final static String JDOM_FEATURE =
>
> "http://www.jdom.org/org.jdom.transform.JDOMSource/feature";
>
> and then put a page there.
>
> Alternately, we could make them something that clearlyisn't a
> URL such
> as "org.jdom.transform.JDOMResult/feature" and
> "org.jdom.transform.JDOMSource/feature". However, an unresolvable URL
> will confuse people.
>
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