David Crossley wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
David Crossley wrote:
Are you just talking about the stylesheet or the DTDs too?
The trouble with the DTDs is that they will make this
plugin, and our SVN trunk, very cumbersome. How many
versions of Full DocBook and Simplified DocBook will
we support?
...
The issue is more about efficiency. When the xml parser
encounters a document type declaration in an xml instance,
then it must resolve the DTD and everything that is thereby
referenced. So if you don't provide local copies, then there
are network trips on every parse.
We could not provide them, and just give people
documentation about how to configure their own.
In fact we already have that.
The trouble is that they don't. Then poor Forrest
would appear awfully slow to them.
How about we enhance the plugin install mechanism to offer to download
an additional package of DTD's. So the install process would be:
- set forrest.properties
- forrest
- approve plugin licenses (to be done)
- specify required DTD's
- install selected DTD's
This way we can tell users, "these DTD's are xMb, are you sure you want
to install them? If you don't install them then Forrest will only work
whilst you are online and will not perform as fast"
Ross
