Re: XML catalogs and xml-base
On Sunday, January 12, Jor-el wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2002, Adam DiCarlo wrote:
>
> > Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > Yes, I do think 'xml-base' should be a separate package. Mark Johnson has
> > > been working on a preliminary one a couple of months back
> >
> > I would assume it's dead?
It did die, temporarily, but I resurrected it today. I'm currently
writing it up and will post my ideas tomorrow.
We can then combine our ideas and argue, er, enjoy a spirited
discussion over the relative merits and hopefully get something out
the door asap.
Gotta go to my birthday party now, or I'd have much more to say:)
Cheers,
Mark
> >
> > > and I don't want to go through the hassle of changing depedencies
> > > when it comes along.
> >
> > True...
> >
> > > Now, of course one could question whether
> > > Mark's version really is needed when my version (see below) does
> > > what we need, but we cross that bridge when we get there. The most
> > > important thing to clear the current messy support.
> > >
> > > Also, to me it just makes more sense for XML stuff to depend on xml-base,
> > > and SGML stuff on sgml-base.
> >
> > Well, as I'm sure you know quite clearly, sgml-base contains support
> > for SGML open catalogs, but those can reference both XML and SGML
> > DTDs.
> >
> > Anyhow, I'm fine with xml-base as a separate package. After all, it
> > does depend on a non-arch-indep pkg, and it would be a shame to make
> > sgml-base non-arch-indep I guess...
> >
> Hi,
>
> I've been searching in vain for Debian's XML catalogs. Since
> matters came to a head for me, I sat down and wrote some catalogs. A tar
> file is attached. Please note (1) I have no idea whether this will work
> for you in your proposed xml-base / xml-common package. If it works, well
> and good. It works for me at any rate. (2) On the assumption that XML
> catalogs need not have to deal with SGML document DTD, when I cloned only
> the referenced XML related files from /etc/sgml/catalog. If this is an
> incorrect assumption, please let me know.
>
> If you find this useful and need to make modifications, please
> feel free to add your names to the copyright statement.
>
> Regards,
> Jor-el
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