- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 05 Jan 2001 17:25:56 +0000
- To: MarkH@i2.co.uk
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
MarkH@i2.co.uk writes: > I work from home (56k modem connection) and office (big fat connection) and > the need to be online when validating makes working from home very tedious. > In the past I have saved local copies of the various specs and DTDs and > mangled my files to use them, but this is painful (tracking them all down) > and error prone (having to keep files with hacked URLs). > > It would be lovely if XSV could have an offline mode where it would save > copies of resources locally and use them when not online. > > Is this something that others would benefit from? > > Henry - what do you think about this? I'm all in favour of the functionality described. I wish someone would implement a simple universal caching proxy for offline use: XSV uses standard http libraries and is therefore sensitive to the value of the http_proxy environment variable. Were such a proxy available, all that would be required would be to first while online launch the proxy, set http_proxy to point to it, run XSV on the relevant documents, then be free to run offline with the same proxy. Perhaps such a proxy already exists? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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