[jdom-interest] TrAX feature strings

[Jason Hunter]

> At 5:10 PM +0200 9/16/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:
> >Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> >The JAXP TrAX spec. mandates that the feature name be "an absolute
> >URI" (see javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.getFeature()).
> >The JAXP TrAX classes themselves use unresolvable URLs, for example
> >"http://javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource/feature" for SAXSource.
> 
> OK, so let's rule out the option of making them non-URIs. I still
> think they should be resolvable, legal http URLs or just maybe URNs.
> Making them illegal, non-resolvable http URLs is asking for trouble.
> (javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource is not a host as required by the
> HTTP 1.1 spec.) It may be too late for the JAXP TrAX classes (I wish
> I'd noticed this in JAXP earlier) but it's not too late for JDOM.

So on one hand we can match JAXP, on the other we can try to do
something smarter.  What's the practical difference?

-jh-