On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:24:20AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > > > > the master catalog will be /etc/xml/catalog unless the system software > >have been installed differently. > > how does the system software inform libxml2 that the master catalog is > somewhere else - or are all the applcations on the system supposed to start > setting environment varibles?
I can't answer for them. I pushed to have /etc/xml/catalog standardized on Linux (with difficulties), but I can't really work on others. > > yes, that's the default from an upstream point of view. > >But you should not rely on catalog being present. It's merely an > >accelerator > >or a way to keep instance identical in the case you may not have network > >access. > > IMHO if you fully care about portability to any target OS then don't > >assume a catalog and build the paths in your software. > > I think I'm about to fall into a Catch-22 - the reason I wanted to use > catalogs was to deal with the situation where the system running netperf > had the netperf DTD in a place other than the system running netserver. Hey you can't blame me if other OSes are slow to adopt this. > The XML-encapsulated messages sent back and forth between netperf and > netserver include the reference to the DTD, using SYSTEM and giving some > canonical place such as http://www.netperf.org/netperf_docs.dtd/1.0 that > each was going to be able to map, via the catalog, to wherever the user > decided to install netperf and by extension its DTD - at present defaulting > to /usr/local/share/netperf Using a canonical URL for the System identifier is definitely a good thing. But portability (of the document) requires a catalog, and portability of the catalog system is unfortunately not there. I think I did my share to try to solve this in the area I could have an impact on, but sorry there is nothing I can do to get changes in HP-UX or Windows ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
