RFR (JAXP) 8135283: DOM API update: Element Traversal Specification

[Mandy Chung]

On 09/25/2015 02:38 PM, huizhe wang wrote:
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>> With this application/libraries used to put xml-apis-2.11.0.jar on 
>> the endorsed/ext directory or classpath no longer needs to do that 
>> because org.w3c.dom.ElementTraversal was not part of the DOM API 
>> endorsed by JAXP in JDK 8.
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>> I skimmed through the change that looks okay.
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>> 214                         URI _uri = new URI(uri, true);
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>> This change removed the catching of MalformedURLException that will 
>> fall back to use parentBaseURI. i.e. now it won't fall back to use 
>> parentBaseURI if line 214 throws MUE.  Is that intentional?
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> Yes. It was a performance improvement, quote:
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> Reduce MalformedURIExceptions thrown while
> resolving xml:base. The URI class previously only accepted
> absolute URIs so at least one exception was always being
> thrown for relative URIs.

Okay.  Sounds good.

Mandy