Re: XML Property List code in GNUstep Base

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 14 Jul 2015, at 17:04, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 14 Jul 2015, at 16:47, Stefan Bidigaray <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> I was wondering if anyone with the right credentials had seen this e-mail?  
>> I would gladly make the changes, but I don't know how to add new files to 
>> the website.  To me, the solution seems pretty simple: (1) add 
>> "plist-1.0.dtd" (or whatever) to the gnustep.org website, (2) modify the 
>> code to point to it, (3) modify the plist version attribute to "1.0".  The 
>> only thing I can do without introducing introducing the new file is correct 
>> the file name from plist-0_9.xml to plist-0_9.dtd.  I don't feel comfortable 
>> bumping the version number without also introducing the new dtd file.
> 
> I’d also be interested to see what NetBSD’s XML plist library does.  I 
> believe that they just use the Apple DTD, which might be a better option for 
> us - it’s easier for code consuming plists to validate that the DTD string is 
> the same than to fetch and validate that the DTDs are equivalent.

Yes, the format (and presumably the dtd document location) has been stable for 
several years now … I suppose there’s no reason we can’t point to it.