Browsing the archives, I see that Jesse Glick's earlier response, to which
I was responding without quoting it, did not make it into the archives for
no apparent reason.
(It did have users_at_javahelp.dev.java.net in the To field - so ???).
So here it is for the record...
Jesse Glick
<jesse.glick_at_orac
le.com> To
users_at_javahelp.dev.java.net
05/26/2010 12:11 cc
PM
Subject
Re: JavaHelp DTDs suddenly offline
On 05/26/2010 11:56 AM, gpicher_at_desknetinc.com wrote:
> http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javahelp/map_1_0.dtd
>
> This worked yesterday afternoon and has worked for years, but now returns
a
> Page Not Found.
>
> Was this intentional?
Most likely just an accidental consequence of routine web site maintenance,
especially after the Oracle acquisition. I would encourage you to report it
using the feedback
link on that page; ask for this and related URLs to be retained in
perpetuity.
Note that pages like this are outside of the control of the
javahelp.dev.java.net project. DTDs could be published on the java.net
site, but this would require changes to
existing links; java.net web service is rather slow; and it is possible
that the domain name would change after the transition to the Kenai
infrastructure anyway.
> Is there a workaround?
Use an XML catalog to point to local copies of the JavaHelp DTDs; this will
insulate you from problems like these, as well as network outages etc. For
example, Ant
includes an <xmlcatalog> type which can be referenced from various
XML-related tasks.