Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > Joerg Heinicke wrote: > > > > > > > > Another solution that came to my mind is pointing to a web URL like > > > > http://cocoon.apache.org/dtd/document-v10.dtd. This would also make > > > > validating possible in editors that don't understand catalogues. > > > > > > this seems to be a good approach for me. > > > > Would it be acceptable to infrastructure@ apache? It is not just > > one simple DTD you are downloading, there are many included bits. > > > > I do not agree with the approach. Cocoon has encouraged people to > > use the entity resolver. We should not join their bad practice. > > > > A better solution might be to move away from DTDs. Oh drat, some > > editors only support DTDs ... foiled again. > > > > > I'm not sure, but I think > > > the forrest people have already put their dtds somewhere at > > > *.apache.org. Perhaps this as well? > > > > No, Forrest does use such URIs now, but there is deliberately > > no resource at the end of it. We encourage the use of proper > > tools, such as the catalog entity resolver. > > Ok, you suggest using an entity resolver. Of course this is > a good solution, but you can't change/force tools to use it. > And a usable DTD needs a defined URI and at least a defined > place where to find this DTD (which could be the defined URI). > But only defining a URI and then saying, "get the DTD from > whereever you find, maybe CVS in directory bla/blub/xyz/..." > seems not very user friendly for me. > > So, I think we should a) define a URI, b) place the dtd > at that URI and c) encourage to use the entity resolver; > but without steps a) and b), the whole thing doesn't make > sense for me.
Then why have Cocoon and Forrest blundered for this long with the way things are. There must be a good reason. Also if people are working with Cocoon documentation, then they already have the DTDs with the distribution. Here is an alternative. We could go back to having the hard-coded ../../dtd/document-v10.dtd type of System Identifiers and set up the entity resolver to have a catalog at the top-level of xdocs. That is preferable to retrieving a mass of DTD stuff across the network every time that someone looks at a document. --David
