• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 05:50:56 -0400 (EDT)

Eliot Kimber writes:

> I suspect this is the key--what is "mailcap"? Is it something local to your
> system? If so, then it is functionally identical to this
> 
> -- SGML open mapping catalog --
> PUBLIC "+//IDN me.com//NOTATION Foo Architecture//EN"
>        "/usr/bin/rasmol"
> 
> And then configuring your XML processor to run the program as a result of
> resolving the mapping.  

Just so.  Mailcap files are stored locally, have a standard content,
and can be added to locally.  They predate URLs, or the standard content
would probably be incorporated by reference instead.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@c...
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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