On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 09:18:37PM +0100, Krzysztof Å»elechowski wrote: > Użytkownik Thomas Dickey napisaÅ: > >On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 08:02:49PM +0100, Krzysztof à »elechowski wrote: > >>Uà ¼ytkownik Thomas Dickey napisaà â: > >>>On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Krzysztof Ãâ¦Ã»elechowski > >>>wrote: > >>>>Do you refer to any server, or WebSVN in particular? Because it > >>>>obviously need not be so, and, given the proper request headers are > >>>>provided, it would be a bug in the server script. > >>>patches welcome ;-) > >>> > >>>bye. > >>> > >>Patches to what? To WebSVN? Do you happen to be the development > >>manager there as well? > >Lynx, of course. You have several times indicated that you see a place > >where Lynx should be improved. > > > That is true; however, for the time being, and assuming that Lynx has > the right not to handle XML (except that Lynx should display XML as > text/plain unless the DOCTYPE says it is XHTML, recognising which in > theory requires an XML reader but I believe it can be done with a > regular expression for the typical case), it is the server that must be > patched to cater to Lynx. I was mainly trying to elicit your opinion on > the mechanism that could be used server-side to achieve that. (And it
I was reading it as directed toward what can be done with the existing mechanism (the existing accept-headers don't appear to cover that). > is not just about WebSVN, but about any server that sends XML to the > client.) > Regarding a possible patch, it is significantly easier to support XML > than to support Javascript because the latter is an interactive > programming environment while the former is merely a preprocessor. > Would you prefer linking to libxml2, dynamically loading libxml2 or > using xsltproc as an external tool? Using it as an external tool might be the simplest to implement. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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