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Re: docbook-xml & centralized catalogs



Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> / Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> was heard to say:
> | Thoughts?  I know it's a little sketchy feeling to be moving catalogs
> | into the dir with entities and dtds, but I think it really is easier
> | to manage, closer to upstream, etc.  And lets face it, upstream SGML
> | catalogs for specific SGML/XML packages are not really user
> | configuration files at all anyhow, are they?
> 
> N.B. if you put a file called 'catalog' in a directory, you cannot
> prevent some SGML systems (e.g, SP and it's relatives) from using it
> if any SGML or XML file is opened from that directory.

I wonder if that's a problem for us.  People should never be working
out of that directory.... OTOH perhaps you can never be too paranoid.
I don't know if we wanna try to standardize that catalog name -- seems
a bit silly / overreaching.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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