Re: [xml] A few Windows specific issues

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:48:50PM +0200, Igor  Zlatkovic wrote:
> > >   file://localhost/c:/dir/file.xml
>
> The first seems to be, well not a standard, but a convention for
> specifying an absolute path in URI notation, if the file in on a Windows
> machine. The second and the third I haven't seen yet. I just tried it
> out to see what happens.

  well it ought to work, I think per RFC 2396.

> >   ??? fopen() lauch IE ???
>
> Yes. I wrote a three-line programme out of hope, but to no avail.
> fopen() launches the programme registered to handle the specified file
> type. Open action for XML files is handled by IE on my machine. If you
> specify a text file, fopen() launches Notepad. Additionally, fopen()
> blocks the calling programme until after the launched application has
> finished. When it returns, it returns (FILE*)0. I have not found a way
> to influence this.

 ROTFL, sorry this is plain crazy !

> >   Status quo except for the file://c|/ notation which may have to be
> > supported if it's the satndard way to do this.
>
> It seems to be a common way, but I have never seen a XML document with
> an absolute path specification in it. It is a rare way. 99% of the time
> people use relative paths, unless the URI refers to something other than
> file://.

  Okay, if someone fills a bug about one of those two, then we will
see, but current resolution is NOTABUG :-)

  thanks a lot !

Daniel

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