"Mike Kienenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Henning,
>Why do we really need an internet dtd? XMLMind works fine by
>including the dtd inside the xdcos addon.
Does it? I tried to use just "SYSTEM" identifiers and ended up with
either having the dtd file in every subdirectory of all sub-projects
or having to juggle around with "SYSTEM "../../../dtds/xdoc.dtd"
pathes that change whenever a file is moved. Both is not exactly user
friendly. Note that the problem is not the editor but the xdoc plugin.
AFAIK, for a DTD we must either have a public/system identifier pair
or just a system reference. You can't just get a public reference
alone.
And while it would be trivial to convert the DTD into an XML schema
and then use all the good "use an entity resolver that is not broken"
advice, it would also rob us of XMLMind, because the free version only
supports a very small subset of XML schemas. For arbitrary support,
you need the professional version and I simply can't see people
spending > 200 bucks just to contribute to open source software.
IMHO, there are three possible solutions (there might be more, but the whole
thing really starts to tire me)
- screw it. Don't reference a DTD and let people who want to use
XMLMind figure out all by themselves that they have to associate the
xml files with the XDOC dtd and style sheets (see Wills' first and
second posting in this thread, about this being non-intuitive without
a DTD.
- use an XSD. Which leaves us with XDOC exactly where we started (no
tool support) but now all the XML lawyers can have a ball, because we
abandoned the "evil DTD".
- Work around the infrastructure people. Add a PUBLIC identifier and
hack the xdoc plugin to "somehow" support this identifier without
accessing the net. Then add a public location somewhere under
jakarta.apache.org/velocity and be done.
All three suck but the first two screw our users. I'll go with the third.
Best regards
Henning
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