Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>]

Hi,

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:34:19 -0400
Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
> >> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes,
> >> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem.
> >> Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ?
> > With HTML, the philosophy is that the parser tries to carry on,
> > even with lots of errors in the HTML code.  XML is much stricter
> > and an error is much more likely to be treated as fatal.
> 
> Well in that case (raises eyebrows), one has to ask
> (1) why does Gentoo offer its docs in such a strict format

It offers it in text/html (MIME type as transmitted by the web server)

> & (2) why there is a bug in the XML sufficient to stall the browsers.

It's not XML (there's no real "file name extension" concept in URI-land).

You probably saved it under a file name resembling the URI, thus
leading your browser to the assumption it might be XML - and it has to
make assumptions for file:// requests, since there's no "Content-Type"
on plain file systems. The conceptual failure is the part that
circumvents this (unreliable) detection algorithm by saving that file
by a name ending in ".xml" (my browser doesn't even offer ".xml" as a
preset for the file format when trying to save the HTML page of the
user guide).

-hwh
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