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Re: svn commit: rev 2297 - trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2002-06-20 19:56:35 CEST

Greg Hudson wrote:

>>>* mod_dav_svn.c (dav_svn_cmds): Recognize option SVNIndexXSLT. If it's
>>>defined, dir indexes will be generated in XML. The default is HTML.
>>>
>>>
>
>Okay, this description really irritates me. HTML is a language. XML is
>a meta-language. Generating a directory listing in HTML is a
>well-defined (though not totally specified) problem. Generating a
>directory listing in XML is not.
>
>Are we talking about XHTML here, or something else?
>
We're talking about XML. The DTD is right there in the diff.

>On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 11:14, Greg Stein wrote:
>
>
>>However, the design of this has severe shortcomings. If somebody configures
>>their site for the XML output, then people will downlevel browsers can't
>>read the page at all. So what this change does is completely limit
>>functionality randomly -- some servers will have reasonable collection
>>responses while others have XML responses.
>>
>>
>
>I agree that it doesn't make much sense for it to be a server-level
>decision.
>
>If we are talking about XHTML (which I can't really tell), then it is
>quite possible to generate stuff which is both valid HTML and valid
>XHTML.
>
>
Yes, I know. That wasn't what I wanted.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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