Re: [xml] Win32 support

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:41:17PM +0200, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> >   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/ ?

  That will be parsed as a file URI, yes. "e:/my/path/" will be parsed
as an URI with a protocol of "e",
  And no that can't wait, FC7test4 deadline is now...

Daniel

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