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Re: LYNX-DEV 2.7 doesn't obey official html DTD tag in the file?
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: LYNX-DEV 2.7 doesn't obey official html DTD tag in the file? |
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Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:43:24 -0500 (CDT) |
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just fetched prebuilt lynx2-7.hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.tar.gz because
> I noticed that our 2.5 version didn't work right with files having
> correct DTD tag. For example I tried accessing
>
> file:/users/jaalto/test.tmp
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> which had been purposively named that name, having the first line
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WC3//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
> <HTML>
>
> As the sgml standard suggests. However when lynx was up, it didn't
> recognized the file as HTML at all. If I changed the extension to
> .html, the html recognition was back.
>
> Please correct this, Lynx should not rely on file extensions, but
> also check the used DTD definition.
I am wondering who gave you this wrong expectation, that <!DOCTYPE is a
"command" which a program (which programs?) has to obey wherever it
occurs. "Correcting" what you think is wrong would be introducing a bug.
Anyway, why not work _with_ file extensions, rather than trying to work
against them? See what mime.types (or SUFFIX in lynx.cfg) can do for you.
Or write a script like
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ];then
/path/lynx
elif grep '<!DOCTYPE' "$1" /dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
/path/lynx -force_html "$@"
else
/path/lynx "$@"
fi
then you can blame your script (and change it) if it doesn't do what your
think it should do.
Klaus
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