[Psgml-devel] Re: [TEI-L] Remote local extensions
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From: Dave L. <d....@dl...> - 2005-07-14 17:50:00
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Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman@Brown.edu> writes: >> >> I am not sure whether Emacs _could_ [follow URLs], but >> >> psgml-in-emacs certainly does not >> >> If that means that using url-handlers.el in the url package >> doesn't work to find system identifiers, it would be good to >> report a bug. (Try the version in Emacs CVS, which is where it's >> maintained now.) PSGML shouldn't do anything special itself. > > Nope -- the problem isn't that url-handling is not working properly, > but that PSGML just doesn't try to follow a URL, either by calling > url-handlers.el or anything else. I keep saying someday I should get > in there an fix it. But given that it took me almost 6 months just > to answer your mail ... Well, I used to maintain the url package, so I wasn't talking through my hat and I know it does actually work -- even with psgml. (with-temp-buffer (url-handler-mode 1) (insert-file-contents "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd") (buffer-substring 1 100)) => "<!-- Copyright 1992-2002 HaL Computer Systems, Inc., O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ArborText, I" It's still not appropriate to fetch entities via HTTP each time you edit a file. |