Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

Hello there,

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Russell Yanofsky wrote:

> I agree that this is a really nice feature, but it wouldn't say it's
> immensely useful. The only case I can think of where it would be
> useful is
> viewing a repository of static html files with relative links. Are any
> there
> other applications for this?

Another application where a URI schema that supports relative hyperlinks
inside a versioned document would be the use of an svn as a repository
for XML/XSL files that make use of URI-based references like Xinclude
and
xsl:document.

In this use-case, the 'client' is an agent employed the XML parser to
resolve uris and include external entities rather than a web-browser.
Setting the base repository location with xml:base and using relative
uris throughout the document is a pretty typical usage.

Also, Mr. Geisser's suggestion of using a custom URI scheme to specify
the revision is also problematic here if svn archived content is to be
accessible by (unmodified) XML processors. I realize that the goal of
svn is not to be an XML repository (though it makes a rather nice one),
but I thought I would bring up this usage, since I hadn't seen it
mentioned so far.

Regards,

Dan M.

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Received on Wed Aug 6 22:03:31 2003