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

[huizhe wang]

Thanks Mandy and Lance for the review!  Changes pushed.

-Joe

On 9/25/2015 3:40 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>
> 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.
>>>
>>> I skimmed through the change that looks okay.
>>>
>>> 214                         URI _uri = new URI(uri, true);
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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