Re: [xml] A few Windows specific issues

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:41:18AM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> If we are going to address this issue, then I suggest that we do it
> properly. We need to consider
>
>   o MS-DOS paths (C:\path\file)
>   o UNC paths (\\server\path\file)
>   o Other platform-specific paths (such as Mac which used colon as
>     the path separator, or VMS which uses dots and generally is
>     strange :)
>   o Unicode in path names
>
> I am pretty sure that somebody has been faced this this problem before,
> and should seek to leverage on their experiences.

  Well, I'm actually pretty sure that everybody has different needs,
I remember the VM/MVS pathnames <grin/> and I think that having an
user setting for filename translation callback is the only way to
have it done properly for everybody: Windows, MVS, VMS, RTos, etc.
  Also it is clean that I will allow this only on filename input
not for generic URI-References, that would be a serious spec breakage.

Daniel

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