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The api for FileSet in general and the new ListFileSet must be extended to allow preservation of broken links (DataObjects which are not reachable from the project). ListFileSet needs this capability to explicitly preserve ordering. Currently, unreachable DataObjects are just removed from the list. The unreachable DataObjects should be returned as BrokenLink (improve the name) which would allow the unreachable url to be obtained. This may also require documentation or api changes to the FileSet api to ensure that unreachable DataObject preserving FileSets may return broken links (if order preserving).
Jan, it's fixed in new filesets API, right?
Yes, it is. The new impl. and api of filesets can preserve broken links and you can obtain them as URLs.