[xml] on this silly debate...

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From: winterlion (winterlion@fsj.net)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 12:21:12 EST


on passing URL's into XML's open:
        reasonable; particularily if that is the form your environment
        handles -all- filesystem/network interfaces (mine does)

on passing directories:
        at first glimpse -> fix the programmer! XML should fail
          gracefully (say, return value from open() signifying a problem)
          but other than that not an XML issue
        on second glimpse ->
                well, seeing as there's helpers for ftp, http, and such
                it could almost be reasonable to make a hook-system for
                file interface, as well as for directories...

the problem with the last is bloat -> and I don't know if it's appropriate
for XML to handle. I like the idea of a library that makes a directory
appear as an XML file but I suspect it's beyond the mandate of libXML :)
(actually it's too open to too many possibilities and filetype handling is
a real pain... hrmm.... sounds like fun :)

On the subject of user interfaces loading files:
        if your interface can't filter out unreasonable files; fix the
        interface. I've -never- had a program crash due to the person
        in front of it entering unreasonable data - I always add filters
        at that point. (and I've been writing programs for lots of years)
        -> this is a GOOD example of "fix the programmer"

On the subject of broken XML files links:
        see above for graceful recovery. This one suspects that XML
        uses it's own "open" for retrieving documents referenced within
        an XML file but has not checked...

I can't think at the moment for any other situations...

G'day, eh? :)
        - Winterlion

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