words (RE: extensibility in XSchema?)

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Tue Jun 23 02:48:27 BST 1998


Eliot Kimber writes:

> I suspect this is the key--what is "mailcap"? Is it something local to your
> system? If so, then it is functionally identical to this
> 
> -- SGML open mapping catalog --
> PUBLIC "+//IDN me.com//NOTATION Foo Architecture//EN"
>        "/usr/bin/rasmol"
> 
> And then configuring your XML processor to run the program as a result of
> resolving the mapping.  

Just so.  Mailcap files are stored locally, have a standard content,
and can be added to locally.  They predate URLs, or the standard content
would probably be incorporated by reference instead.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan at ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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