Re: xml files

[Sheldon Gill]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:53, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2004, at 05:47, Sheldon Gill wrote:
> >> On a more far-sighted note, can anyone here think of a good reason
> >> for our
> >> DTD to be different from Apple's DTD? Is it? It's possible they're
> >> actually the same.
> >
> > Although the formatting is different, with GNUstep's version having
> > lots of
> > comments and Apple's having none, they are functionally identical.
>
> I wrote the GNUstep DTD from scratch ... to avoid any potential
> copyright problem.

That's why I said "functionally". I'm sorry if I didn't make it clearer. 
Didn't mean to imply anything else.

> We could probably just use the Apple DTD rather than our own, but I'm
> not sure
> what people think about that.

GNUstep has it's own, with nice inline documentation. Why change? If Apple 
enhances it's plist specification we'll have to modify GNUstep so changing 
the DTD as part of that is no biggie.

> Either way, we ought to fix up all references to the DTD to point to a
> URL where
> a copy of the DTD can actually be found.

Agreed. Can we settle on http://www.gnustep.org/DTDs/plist_[ver].dtd for web 
access and GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/DTDs/ for local file access?


BTW, my e-mail address has changed (after a ridiculously long time...)


Regards,
Sheldon