On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> >
> > > David Crossley wrote:
> > >
> > > There are some aspects of the document set that need attention
> > > - uniform XML declarations and Document Type Declarations.
> > > When these two issues are resolved, then i will create the
> > > CVS diffs for all relevant xdocs.
> > >
> > > Here are the 4 unique values for XML declaration from all 85 xdocs.
> > > ----
> > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> > > ----
> > > Which one do we settle on?
> > >
> > I would suggest the fifth solution:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >
> > > Here are the 4 unique values for Document Type Declaration
> > > from all relevant docs.
> > > ----
> > > <!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.0//EN"
> > > "dtd/document-v10.dtd">
> > > <!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation Vx.yz//EN"
> > > "dtd/document-v10.dtd">
> > > <!DOCTYPE document SYSTEM "./dtd/document-v10.dtd">
> > > <!DOCTYPE document SYSTEM "dtd/document-v10.dtd">
> > > ----
> > > IMHO the first is the best. What do you think?.
> > >
> > +1 for the first one.
>
> Hmmm, not so sure.
>
> IMHO, since C2 now has a catalog system, why don't we use it?
>
> Then the best identifier should be something like:
>
> <!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.0//EN"
> "http://www.apache.org/dtd/document-v10.dtd";>
IIRC we agreed on a simple "http://apache.org/..."; month ago for
namespaces (isn't this like a namespace?)
> but this will require the entire ASF to be aware of this and I'm not
> sure I have the political power to push this so high.
>
> Second choice something like
>
> <!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//XML//DTD Documentation V1.0//EN"
> "http://xml.apache.org/dtd/document-v10.dtd";>
>
> but still we have to have the PMC approuval for this.
>
> Third option (but this doesn't work without an appropriate catalog) is
>
> <!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.0//EN"
> "document-v10.dtd">
>
> The forth option is to use XSchema and forget about DTD altogher, given
> also the need to include other namespaces such as SVG and OpenOffice.
>
> one thing is for sure: we have to uniform the declaration and make the
> document building process fully validating.
>
> comments?
Well, I don't like DTDs but I don't like XML Schema either (it has grown
into way too complex specification)
Giacomo
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