memcmp() can overrun the buffer.

Eliminate unnecessary dynamic allocations.

Don't catch and log exceptions here; let the caller decide.

This attribute is not a URI; it is just the filename without its
parent directory path.  To avoid confusion, let's rename it to
"filename", leaving the struct without a "uri" attribute.

No longer allocate it as a "VarSize".  This used to be a clever trick
to save memory 10 years ago, but these days, keeping the code
maintainable seems more important than saving a few kilobytes of
memory.