Re: [xml] xmlIO extensions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:52:04AM +0100, Christian Engwer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >   Looked briefly at it, interesting but I think you made an error in the
> > naming scheme. Basically your scheme doesn't seems to be an URI, which mean
> > you loose the automatic naming support.
>
> that is right, Inever experienced this problem, because I never used
> external entities inside the zip archive :-(
>
> >   Something like zip:///path/to/zip/test.zip/top.xml is similar to the
> > file:// scheme, would allow URI-Reference and fragment identifiers.
> > But it would have the same limitations as file:// , namely it's difficult
> > to express addressing relative to the curent directory.
>
> The big disadvatage would be, that all archives would have to be named
> *.zip. I read through rfc2396 and have an other suggestion:
> I'd like to keep the syntax <zip-uri><zipfilemarker><internal-uri>.
> That makes it easier to parse and offers the flexibility to name the
> archive in any way.
> I thought <escapechar>zip would be good <zipfilemarker>. While reading
> through rfc2396 I found 3 chars which are allowed, but very uncommon
> for filenames: '!' '@' and ':'.
> So I'd suggest some uri like
>    path/to/zip/test zip zip/top.xml
> This would impose a small limitation on the user... he could not use
> directories names ending on @zip while using xmlzipio, but I tink this
> is OK.
>
> I test all three chars, all three work fine, although I think @zip
> would be best readable.
>
> What would you think...

  Why not it seems it would work fine too.
But even better, check how the OpenOffice guys did it and
reuse it if possible !

Daniel

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