[XML-SIG] prepare_input_source and relative path

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:17 +0100, Sylvain Thénault wrote:
> On Monday 07 February à 10:04, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> > file:///base + file:relative.xml -> file:///base/relative.xml
> > 
> > Since the file scheme's semantics are so wooly.  But this wouldn't make
> > sense if you replaced "file" with "http".
> 
> yep. But notice my patch doesn't change anything in that case, which
> will so behave according to urlparse.urljoin's behaviour:
> 
> >>> urlparse.urljoin('file:///base', 'file:relative.xml')
> 'file:///relative.xml'
> >>> urlparse.urljoin('file:///base', 'http:relative.xml')
> 'http:relative.xml'

Bleah.  I guess that's why Mike Brown has had to create fixed versions
of all the Python stdlib URI functions for 4Suite :-)


> > Then there's the matter of a base URI given as 
> > 
> > /base
> > 
> > in 4Suite we require all base URIs to be proper base URIs (so they must
> > at least have a scheme).  I think this is a reasonable restriction based
> > on RFC requirements.  Is there a valid user case where there would not
> > be a proper base URI, anyway?
> 
> always having proper URI as base sounds like a reasonable restriction to
> me too, and I can't see user case where it would not. But we may have
> backward compat problem here if decide to care about it. Maybe
> InputSource.setSystemId could check for scheme presence, and if not add
> a file: and issue a deprecation warning ?

I do like the idea of a deprecation warning for this case, but what
about backwards compat?  The warnings module dates from Python 2.1.


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