FHS-2.3 -- /usr/share/xml

[Toshio]

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