Re: [docbook-apps] Mozilla CSS and Entities

["Carlos Araya" <carlos@cvc.edu>]

Jens:

No one is arguing the point. It's just the way it is right now.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22942 has the full discussion of
the issues related to this bug

Carlos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jens Stavnstrup" <js@ddre.dk>
To: "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz>
Cc: "anon croaker" <anon_croaker@yahoo.co.uk>; "docbook_apps"
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 06:39
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Mozilla CSS and Entities


> Jirka,
>
> Mozilla might not download the DTD, I do not know if we can configure
> Mozilla to do just that. However, I would prefere not to have to download
> a DTD every time I wan't to see an XML document in my browser.
>
> Think what would happend, if the document was using XInclude to modularise
> the document, which again would have references to external enities. That
> would really require bandwidth, when downloaded over the net.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jens
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jirka Kosek wrote:
>
> > Jens Stavnstrup wrote:
> >
> > > Mozilla must recognize the five entities defined in the XML standard,
and
> > > thats it. You must thefore resolve all other enities in your document
to
> > > the associated numerical value. Norm included the entity files in the
> > > DocBook DTD only for our convenience.
> >
> > The real cause of problem is fact that the Mozilla doesn't load external
> > entities (including DTD). This is allowed by XML spec., but it is very
> > inconvenient and impractial behaviour.
> >
> > Jirka
> >
> > -- 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >    Jirka Kosek
> >    e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz
> >    http://www.kosek.cz
> >
>
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