Re: [xml] xmlIO extensions

[Bruce Miller <bruce miller nist gov>]

Christian Engwer wrote:
> If you open 
> zip:/dir/archive.zip!/content.xml
> and content.xml referes to an external entity "content.dtd"
> libxml will realise that this is a relative request and will build a
> new path as followed:
>   oldpath:  zip:/dir/archive.zip!/content.xml
> ->basepath: zip:/dir/archive.zip!/
> ->newpath: zip:/dir/archive.zip!/content.dtd

I've been watching from the sidelines, and may be missing something 
significant, but why do you need the marker (!) at all?
_If_ you're willing to make the module act a bit like a `zip server'
(analogous to http server), and have it traverse the directory components
from the top:  when it encounters a zip file instead of a directory, 
then it knows (analogous to finding a cgi somewhere within the url).

OTOH, this would _not_ extend well to the case of getting the zip from
http, ftp, whatever!  So forget this suggestion if you're going that
direction!! :>


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