Re: RFC: lsb implementation proposal

[Mark Johnson <mark@phy.duke.edu>]

Thanks for your comments, Adam.

So, it sounds like you're OK with the general scheme I propose. Is that right?  

And the "custom" docbook subdirectory? It's an entirely new addition,
but seems like the only solution.

Adam Di Carlo writes:
> 
> Some comments. I did some work on sgml-data trying to get it ready for
> the new scheme.  Some ambiguities arose.

not surprised. It needs to be fleshed out a bit.

> section 2.1.2: add the corresponding entries such as
> xml-iso-entities-8879.1986 in the new structure. 

I have no experience with the iso entities, so your input is key....

Should we put them in a subdirectory named something like
"xml-iso-entities-8879.1986", or simply dump them in the entities
directory w/o a subdirectory, as is done presently in
/usr/lib/sgml/entities?  

And, what about all those FPI-based symlinks? Are we (meaning you, I
guess) planning to retain that structure? If so, we should add a
section that is explicit about when and when not to create them.
> 
> Add rationale that common or minor dtds, declarations, entities go in
> /usr/share/sgml/{dtd,entities,declaration}, whereas "well known" DTDs
> get their own top-level /usr/share/sgml/<name> directory.

Sure. Do you mean to add the "well-known" statement to 3.1.1.1
"Directory Creation Guidelines", or to the dtd usage notes in 3.1.1?


> For the above well-known DTDs, do they all replicate
> /usr/share/sgml/<name>/{dtd,entities,declaration} ?  

No. There is no "entities" or "declaration" directory for a given dtd, only

/usr/share/sgml/<well-known-dtd>

                          custom/
                          dtd/
                          stylesheet/

The entities are usually distributed with the dtd (in ent/), so we
should preserve that structure for ease of packaging. Same goes for
the non-xml declarations. 

If we leave it all as-is, Norm's catalogs will work without change. 

> Where would I put, for instance, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 ?  Perhaps
> /usr/share/sgml/xhtml/1.{0,1} ?  Or, more like docbook,
> /usr/share/sgml/html/dtd/xml/1.{0,1} ?

Yeah, I thought about that one myself. 

I'd go with /usr/share/sgml/xhtml/1.{0,1} for a numnber of reasons:

 - there's no corresponding sgml directory (OK, maybe HTML 4.01 Strict)

 - it's likely that xhtml/ would be the _only_ directory under xml/,
   thereby making xml/ pointless

Sound OK?

HTML is a special case, anyway.


Thanks,
Mark



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