Subject: Re: detecting file type by magic number
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 10:47:24 CST
At 9:21 PM -0800 1/20/00, Paul Rohr wrote:
>As for doctypes, they seem like a hindrance to sniffers, rather than a help.
>(Check the blue examples to see what I mean.) AFAICT, doctypes are only
>useful for apps which use DTDs, and I doubt we ever will bother to do so.
Not only that, but DTD's are going away in favor of a more
complete "schema" language for doing "valid" XML (as opposed to the
"well formed" XML used by AbiWord).
LDR
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