- From: Vasil Rangelov <boen.robot@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:43:00 +0200
- To: <public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org>
OK. Maybe I did go overboard with the second parameter thing. Still, there should be a way to embed the value of an environmental variable into the path (or URI), or any of the argument values. ANY way. And now that I think about it, using a file path in COMMAND may not be a bad idea exactly because environment variables would store paths in the OS' format. The best way I think may be to allow both. That is, first check if the value is a valid URI, and resolve it to the proper file path if it is, otherwise, cast it on the interpreter as is. -----Original Message----- From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:31 AM To: Vasil Rangelov Cc: public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org Subject: Re: An unfulfilled requirement maybe? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In my opinion, the cost-benefit on this has gotten out of hand -- designing ways to mess about with environment variables which reproduce the complexities of the union of all the likely platforms. . . Just say 'no'! Having said that, the documentation probably does need to say _something_ about environment variables, even if it's no more than "It is implementation-defined what environment variables, if any, are passed down." I know from bitter experience that if steps are _not_ taken to pass the SYSTEMROOT env. var. when running on Windoz OSes then obscure failures result. . . ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTTVukjnJixAXWBoRAvfpAJ4mqvbNbUJd2eVp58q7GvJoWo4h4gCfYoAj N+t4QnZvqhU2Hze/6UC7rcY= =Foch -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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