Re: [Lynx-dev] http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/

[Krzysztof Żelechowski]

Użytkownik Thomas Dickey napisał:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 08:02:49PM +0100, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> > Użytkownik Thomas Dickey napisał:
> > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> > > > Do you refer to any server, or WebSVN in particular?  Because it
> > > > obviously need not be so, and, given the proper request headers are
> > > > provided, it would be a bug in the server script.
> > > patches welcome ;-)
> > >
> > > bye.
> > Patches to what?  To WebSVN?  Do you happen to be the development
> > manager there as well?
> Lynx, of course.  You have several times indicated that you see a place
> where Lynx should be improved.
That is true; however, for the time being, and assuming that Lynx has 
the right not to handle XML (except that Lynx should display XML as 
text/plain unless the DOCTYPE says it is XHTML, recognising which in 
theory requires an XML reader but I believe it can be done with a 
regular expression for the typical case), it is the server that must be 
patched to cater to Lynx.  I was mainly trying to elicit your opinion on 
the mechanism that could be used server-side to achieve that.  (And it 
is not just about WebSVN, but about any server that sends XML to the 
client.)
Regarding a possible patch, it is significantly easier to support XML 
than to support Javascript because the latter is an interactive 
programming environment while the former is merely a preprocessor.  
Would you prefer linking to libxml2, dynamically loading libxml2 or 
using xsltproc as an external tool?
Thanks,
Chris