Bug 1281

Summary:	Use a public identifier for fonts.conf
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Component:	library	Assignee:	fontconfig-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	akira, fonts-bugs
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Owen Taylor 2004-09-02 14:02:17 UTC

We have an open bug for Red Hat that the fonts.conf DTD should
be registered in the system catlog so that, e.g., psgml mode can
find it:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91968

Sounds reasonable to me. But fontconfig currently uses:

<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

Using something along the lines of:

<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Would make it possible. (You don't really need both the public identifier
and the URL. I think you can omit either one, but I don't know the
syntax for omitting the public identifier offhand.)

Comment 1 Keith Packard 2004-09-02 14:42:36 UTC

You're way beyond my understanding of DTDs.  Is there some formal body to
register public DTDs with?

Comment 2 Keith Packard 2005-01-28 15:56:31 UTC

I still have no idea how to make this work; can you present a more complete
recipe for this change?

Comment 3 Patrick Lam 2006-04-12 14:37:29 UTC

This seems to be a useful link:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/tools-validate.html

Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2006-10-29 11:54:45 UTC

As far as I know 80% of the DTDs found on the web use whatever ID their author
cooked by itself. xsd is a bit saner, you can use URIs and DNS warrants they're
unique

Comment 5 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-08-12 16:20:55 UTC

I read the XML 1.1 spec, both the identifier and the URL are required.

Regarding public-id's, the second part of this has a formal definition of the syntax: http://xml.coverpages.org/tauber-fpi.html

There are also examples in section 1.2 of this: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3151.html

So I suggest one of these:

-//FDO//DTD Fontconfig Font Configuration Language @DTD_VER@//EN//

+//IDN freedesktop.org//DTD Fontconfig Font Configuration Language @DTD_VER@//EN//

+//IDN fontconfig.org//DTD Font Configuration Language @DTD_VER@//EN//

Where @DTD_VER@@ is incremented everytime the DTD changes.  Copies of all versions should be available online.

Comment 6 Nicolas Mailhot 2008-12-15 11:25:39 UTC

I don't really know DTD, it is old, but I feel it does not require a resolvable URL anywhere

Fow xsds this is even more clear, take a look at "Should the targetNamespace be a URL or a URN?" on http://www.xfront.com/BestPracticesHomepage.html

When in doubt ask xml-dev on
http://www.xml.org/xml-dev

The people here are nice and knowledgeable (they wrote the specs)

Comment 7 Nicolas Mailhot 2009-11-18 08:59:52 UTC

Looking at the catalog spec I'm not so sure it needs a different identifier. This question is probably best to ask on the xml list where people that write reference books can answer

 http://www.xml.org/xml-dev/

Comment 8 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:43:16 UTC

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