Re: [xml] Win32 support

["Christian Ehrlicher" <Ch Ehrlicher gmx de>]

Von: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > Von: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
> > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:56:40PM +0200, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > > > The seond patch needs some more work - hope to get it working in a
> > > acceptable way in the next few days.
> > >
> > >   What does it do? I plan a release like within the next hour.
> > It's the change in uri.c from the patch I posted here:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2007-January/msg00175.html
> > I wanted to investigate some more the see if there's a better solution
> for this, but if you want to release a new version it's maybe better to just
> use this one.
> > The problem is that this function currently does not recognize
> windows-paths (they come from the env var XML_CATALOG_FILES) in the form c:/my/path
> and a wrong uri was created.
>
>   If you pass a windows path to an URI parsing routine this may not
> work, and that's perfectly okay. The semantic and syntax is dictated by
> the corresponding RFCs (2396 though it's now obsoleted and I should
> update)
> and there is no way I'm gonna change for example the parsing of the
> scheme related part and change it on windows. An URI is an URI and
> the syntax and processing must be platform agnostic. Maybe the URI routine
> should not be called but modifying the URI code is not in order,
> I can't apply that part of the patch,
Ok, thx for the explanation. Would it be possible to wait for the release until tomorrow so I can create 
another patch for this?
Is it okay when the uri parsing gets something like this:
file:///e:/my/path/ ?

Christian
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