- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:58:22 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote:
>At some point something should at least know that it fetched the DTD with
>say ftp or http, or found it in a local directory.
>
>Thinking about it, no, that's some inspired guesswork at best.
No, that's correct. The problem is this information isn't currently exposed to
the Validator code by the SGML parser[0] and the necessary modifications to
propogate it are what I suspect will be too expensive compared to the relative
importance of this feature.
We will be investigating it, as the same functionality is necessary for another
desired feature, but I'm currently somewhat pessimistic about its feasability.
[0] — OpenSP, <http://openjade.sf.net/>, which consists of many thousand lines
of really grotty C++ code; which code, BTW, uses ancient idioms and lacks
any usefull comments.
--
When I decide that the situation is unacceptable for me, I'll simply fork
the tree. I do _not_ appreciate being enlisted into anyone's holy wars,
so unless you _really_ want to go _way_ up in my personal shitlist don't
play politics in my vicinity. -- Alexander Viro on lkml
Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2005 07:58:27 UTC