Re: Re: Action request: mime-type of xml-dtd should be treated as text

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Irving <Mark.Irving_at_informatix.co.uk> writes:

 Mark> An XML DTD is often, but not always, prepared with a text
 Mark> editor or a syntax-aware text editor. Exactly the same claim
 Mark> can be made about, say, a C++ source file. If SVN presents C++
 Mark> source as text, shouldn't it do the same for
 Mark> application/xml-dtd? The argument is weaker for
 Mark> application/xml, which is more likely to be edited with a
 Mark> specialized program, but is often text.

It's always text.

Yes, it is true that XML elements may be able to be moved around, and
IF you do that, then you end up with a large delta. Marks' argument
is exactly correct: the same thing is true for C, or C++. But that's
not used as an argument for having C not be text, and for the same
reason it isn't a correct argument for XML not being text.

       paul

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Received on 2008-02-06 20:52:50 CET