On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 17:19, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:55:08PM -0400, Toshio wrote: > > What is the future of FHS2.3 and fedora? > > > > I was just looking for guidance on where to install some DTDs for a > > package and found FHS-2.3 specifies a /usr/share/xml directory: > > > > /usr/share/xml contains architecture-independent files used by XML > > applications, such as ordinary catalogs (not the centralized ones, see > > /etc/sgml), DTDs, entities, or style sheets. > > > > FC2 uses /usr/share/sgml for some of this and other pieces are strewn in > > individual program directories under /usr/share. Even under FHS-2.2, > > these things are specified to live under the /usr/share/sgml > > hierarchy.... > > > > If this is going to be our convention, I'll build to accomodate it, > > otherwise I'll do what most packages seem to do right now: install in > > their own directory under /usr/share/<PROGNAME> > > I think I suggested the /usr/share/xml split from /usr/share/sgml . > This came out of serious troubles with catalogs, where SGML definitions > for entities were clashing with the same definitions for XML tools. > If you intend to put XML resources on the filesystem for global access > I suggest the following steps: > - use a subdirectory for /usr/share/xml for storing those resource > please make it unique, a scheme like > /usr/share/xml/$company/$product/$version > should be fine > - register system and public ids using an XML catalog hooked > to /etc/xml/catalog , best being by using delegates to a subcatalog=
