Re: [VCDImager-GUI-devel] Re: Questions and stuff about the VCDXBuild/VCDImager

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Fredrik Blom wrote:
>> any comments/suggestions on this are welcome;
> This sound just like what I was thinking about... The best thing to do I
> guess is to have the <meta> element totally transparent to VCDXBuild so
> that We gui-guys can use them as we wish...

btw, I've hit some limitation... :-/
maybe you are more experienced here...

I've tried the following one variant,

<!ELEMENT meta ANY>
<!ATTLIST meta
  xmlns   %URI;   #REQUIRED
>

but then I hit a problem:
XML namespaces does not handle importing DTD's :-(

thus the XML validation in vcdxbuild fails as soon as you start using some
undeclared tag/element...

any ideas?

(I can always try to do some hack, to read in the DOM tree, remove any
meta content, and let the validation kick in posteriory, but I don't want
to do this, unless really necessary... and on the other hand, if libxml2
has problems with this, chances are, that other XML parsing tools have as
well..)

>> I'm eagerly awaiting them... :)
> I'm implementing extended output dialog from the create image process, to
> use the gui- and progress flags.

> BTW what I do today is that I extract the version number from the text
> returned on -V option (to see if I can use the gui- and progress flags)...
> One thing that popped into my head was that it would be nice (for this
> purpose) to have an option that returns the version number only... Would
> make it easier to get the information... (I rely on the format of the text
> returned today but it feels a bit "hacky" :-)

the first line is more or less following GNU/Linux conventions...

some other examples:

tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19
GNU sed version 3.02
RPM version 4.0.2
TeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
GNU Emacs 20.7.1

well... ok... this examples show, that there's no arch identifier
appended...

but well, I can modify the --version output to have a different format,
when the --gui option is given as well...

e.g.
<version major="0" minor="7" micro="10pre4" arch="linux-gnu/i686" />

...any other suggestions?

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