0e23581fbd
NMU
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Python 2.4
2006-03-05 16:56:00 +00:00
76c18b110a
Recent libxml2 required, and now in Sid.
2005-02-08 13:22:20 +00:00
8e22747698
makes lintian happier
2004-09-15 16:17:07 +00:00
5609b8d7d4
don't apply the patch to the working directory
2004-08-31 09:45:16 +00:00
02b499ee02
added the missing sys.path.append to the executable
2004-08-31 09:08:08 +00:00
483c14739e
debian packaging updates
2004-07-02 21:00:52 +00:00
8045548a4a
install xml catalogs BEFORE launching expression
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works better
2004-07-01 20:47:42 +00:00
b419143027
.cvsignore for debian/
2004-07-01 10:41:30 +00:00
419d7e298e
added debian/ packaging
2004-07-01 10:40:53 +00:00
9a13c2d3fe
Changed the way descriptions & schemas are found.
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Instead of using an heuristic to find them in the current directory or in
the modules or in the application or..., it now uses absolute URIs and
catalogs.
2004-06-11 15:17:37 +00:00
42a4a98f59
Added XHTML DTDs & entities as XML catalogs. These catalogs are handled the
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Debian way <http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/ >.
Q: Why do you use manage XML catalogs the standard way instead of libxml2 way?
A: Because the Debian way is the standard (Oasis) way and it is partially
incompatible with libxml2 way.
Q: Why do you use XML catalogs?
A: Because I needed to store XHTML entities definitions in the local
filesystem.
Q: Why do you need to store XHTML DTDs & entities definitions in the local
filesystem?
A: For speed reasons. Otherwise calls to libxml2 function xmlReadDoc with
option XML_PARSE_DTDLOAD require HTTP calls to get the DTD and its entities.
Q: Why do you need to use xmlReadDoc function with option XML_PARSE_DTDLOAD?
A: Otherwise, the parsing of XHTML files fails when the files contain
entities like é, etc.
Q: Why are entities definitions needed? You don't need entities substitution
when parsing XML & XHTML files.
A: Because after spending several hours testing and reading libxml2
documentation, I discovered that even when not substituting entities,
libxml2 needs to know their definitions (the reason is it stores both
entities declarations and substitutions inside XML tree. See
http://xmlsoft.org/entities.html ).
Q: Why do you use xmlReadDoc instead of xmlParseDoc?
A: Because after spending several hours testing and reading libxml2
documentation, I discovered that xmlParse functions are deprecated.
Q: Why don't you use htmlParseDoc (or htmlReadDoc) anymore to read XHTML
files? They worked well with entities without requiring DTDs.
A: Because html(Parse|Read)Doc ignore namespace declarations.
Q: Why don't you ignore namespace declarations when parsing XHTML files?
A: Because XHTML files are XML files. And we need to differentiate XML tags
with and without namespaces.
Q: Why did you repair XHTML namespaces handling today.
A: Because Fred asked for it yesterday: "je crée un fichier xml, je ne
spécifie pas de namespace, pq l'attribution à l'holder et à l'élément
du namespace xhtml ?".
Q: Did you spent the whole day programming this small feature request?
A: No, I also wrote this FAQ.
2004-05-23 23:13:05 +00:00
sebd