Mimetype names (Re: mimetypes for zipped files)

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 23:21, Marc Mutz wrote:
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> On Wednesday 10 April 2002 22:44, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
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> > In the past, it was simply a relative path. Recently, as http has become
> > common, it was decided that the system id should be a http address.
> > However, it can still be a local path if your file is not public.
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> > You need a valid system id for programs like xmllint (in --valid mode) or
> > such programs cannot use the DTD.
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> xmllint can do:
> xmllint --dtdvalid /path/to/local/copy/of.dtd file.xml
> IIRC, libxml2 itself can use a catalog to find the dtd for a given
> publicID.

Yes, but it is more difficult to explain to somebody than:
  xmllint --valid file.xml

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> Application to KPartGUI (I guess it's clear that KOffice docs need a
> www.kde.org SystemLiteral since they'll regularly leave the user's system):

David Faure has chosen to have them on http://www.koffice.org , not on 
http://www.kde.org

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> So, we still should have a location under www.kde.org (and I'd include the
> year just to be consistent; also we might see ourselves producing _more_
> (versions of) DTDs than the W3C!) for the kpartgui.dtd.

I am still not sure. A normative body like W3C is perhaps oriented by years, 
but KDE is more oriented by versions.

> The question is whether the system ID should point to the www.kde.org
> address, or whether the install process replaces it with the actual path on
> the system. I don't like the latter since we can always use --dtdvalid with
> xmllint during the build and Qt isn't a validating parser anyway AFAIK, so
> we never get any background network activity.

No, it seems to be clear that an Internet address is needed. That is the 
current practice for W3C.

If a user needs a local address, he can do it himself (or he should not do it, 
if he is not knowing what he is doing.)

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> Marc
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> Marc Mutz <mutz at kde.org>

Have a nice day/evening/night!