Hi All, Sorry for the delay -- I've been rereading the revised and clarified (Oct 24) XML Catalog spec and it took longer than expected.
And don't worry Adam, my aim is to keep things simple:) Give me a few more hours... Cheers, Mark On , January 14, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 14 Jan 2003, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > > > > > > > Should I include the XML catalog DTD with sgml-data? (Probably along > > > with the Relax, XML Schema, and other represntations.) Or should this > > > be in it's own package? > > > > If an XML processor is processing the catalog itself, it would be > > beneficial to have a "SYSTEM" mapping specifying the local location of > > this DTD. > > Well, surely. All XML DTDs and entity files and such will have XML > catalog entries with their local file location. That's why we have > catalogs. > > > A logical place to have this would be in /etc/xml/catalog > > itself. If the xml-common package is going to install /etc/xml/catalog , > > then it would be kind of awkward to have the Catalog DTD in another > > package. Unless of course, xml-common doesnt install /etc/xml/catalog and > > leaves it up to sgml-data..... > > It's xml-core btw. > > That doesn't really follow at all. xml-core would provide means for a > package to (de)register catalogs. It may or may not require the XML > catalog to function properly. That's the question I'm asking. > > > > On another note - what about file naming conventions? > > /etc/xml/catalog is hardcoded into xsltproc - so we dont have much > > flexibility in its naming. SGML catalogs are called either "catalog" or > > "<filename>.cat". In order to allow the equivalent XML catalogs to be > > present in same directory, I propose a naming convention of "xcatalog" or > > "<filename>.xcat" > > No, these are XML documents and that should be their file ending. I > generally use "catalog.xml" for the catalog sitting in the dir along > with the entities and DTDs. "Supercatalogs" with the delegate > information, if we use those, would be /etc/xml/<pkgname>.xml or > /etc/xml/catalogs/<pkgname>.xml or something. > > -- > ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _____________________________________ Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian XML/SGML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: <http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/> GPG fp: 50DF A22D 5119 3485 E9E4 89B2 BCBC B2C8 2BE2 FE81 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
