Re: docbook-xml & centralized catalogs
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> / Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> was heard to say:
> | Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> | > 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.
>
> Any DTD or module loaded out of that directory counts as using it...so
> you'll *always* be using it :-)
Ok, we'll avoid that name. I hate mysterious side-effects.
> | I don't know if we wanna try to standardize that catalog name -- seems
> | a bit silly / overreaching.
>
> Already been done, that's why SP loads it. Any file called "catalog"
> or "CATALOG" gets loaded. (Silly and overreaching though that probably was.)
Well, I meant in the context of an LSB or Debian SGML/XML standard.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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