Re: [xml] A few Windows specific issues

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:09:55PM +0200, Igor  Zlatkovic wrote:
> Okay, I have tested a bit. 

  thanks for the thorough (spelling ?) review !

[...]
> backslash as a valid path element delimiter. I think there is no bug to
> fix.

 I like this kind of solutions :-)

> Now let us observe what else came out. The following does not work from
> the command line:
>
>   file://c|/dir/file.xml
>   file://localhost/c|/dir/file.xml
>   file://localhost/c:/dir/file.xml

  hum ... how many software expect those to work ? Is that a "standard"
convention ?

> The third of the above does not work at all. The first two report an
> error, but fire up the program registered to handle files of type XML,
> which then finds the file. This means, assuming the 'file.xml' exists,
> you see this:
>
>   C:\> xmllint file://c|/dir/file.xml
>   warning: failed to load external 
>            entity "file://c|/dir/file.xml"
>
> and while you read it, Internet Explorer pops up and loads the specified
> XML file. Since xmlint does not use Win32 Shell API, it must be fopen().
> Xmllint calls fopen(), and fopen() launches Internet Explorer on the
> specified file, reporting an error back to xmllint.

  ??? fopen() lauch IE ???

> One day, when I get kids, someone shall ask:
>   "Igorson, what would you like to be when you grow up?"
> And my offspring shall answer: 
>   "Ehmm... I would like to work for a company which neither uses nor
> supports Microsoft Windows in any way."
>
> Okay, now. Daniel, Passing native paths on the command line works. This
> means, you don't need those conversion functions anymore, or do you plan
> to allow Win32 native path specifications in XML files?

  I don't intent to change the behaviour of URI-Reference computation,
definitely no !  It would make them non-conformant to the RFC 2396.

  Status quo except for the file://c|/ notation which may have to be
supported if it's the satndard way to do this.

    thanks a lot !

Daniel

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