Re: [TEI-L] Remote local extensions

Syd Bauman <[email protected]> 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.



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