Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XML_CATALOG_FILES

[Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:33:31AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> was heard to say:
> |   Let's say it's a non-feature (and hence the name is not wisely chosen).
> | I didn't tried to implement $XML_CATALOG_FILES handling as a list.
> | I agree it's a bit confusing because xmllint and xsltproc handling of
> | $SGML_CATALOG_FILES does use a list (blank or column separated).
> | Implementing list handling for $XML_CATALOG_FILES would make sense,
> | it's "just" a matter of coding :-) , the good point being that this
> | should not break the existing working behaviour.
> 
> I'm certainly looking forward to this feature :-)

   Hum ... you don't like making a top level catalog ?
It definitely should not be hard, I just didn't expected people would
need a list.

> Putting XML Catalogs on your SGML_CATALOG_FILES list and then running
> an SGML tool produces results that are, uhm, startling :-)

   Hum, I'm afraid I'm misunderstanding something ... why would
you put a list of XML Catalogs on your SGML_CATALOG_FILES list ?

Daniel

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