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FYI, I got replies from a couple of people who remember seeing this
dinosaur. It's not actually used for anything; just old vestigial stuff
that's been deprecated.
>That's OSD, a software update schema thing that was built into IE4.01
>Back when there were ie4 channels and .cdf files following this type
> of format. ~1997.
>
>We briefly looked into using this for autoupdating before officeupdate
>and windowsupdate grew into what they are today.
>
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Francis Norton [mailto:francis@redrice.com]
> >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:56 AM
> >>>To: xml-dev
> >>>Subject: [xml-dev] living fossil?
> >>>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I found this in a .NET public beta 2 CAB file that I just
generated:
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>><?XML version="1.0" ENCODING='UTF-8'?>
> >>><!DOCTYPE SOFTPKG SYSTEM
> >>>
> >>"http://www.microsoft.com/standards/osd/osd.dtd";>
> >>
> >>><?XML::namespace
> >>>
> > href="http://www.microsoft.com/standards/osd/msicd.dtd";
> >
> >>>as="MSICD"?>
> >>><SOFTPKG NAME="BufferMapperCab" VERSION="1,0,0,0">
> >>> <TITLE> BufferMapperCab </TITLE>
> >>> <MSICD::NATIVECODE>
> >>> <CODE NAME="BufferMapper">
> >>> <IMPLEMENTATION>
> >>> <CODEBASE FILENAME="BufferMapper.exe">
> >>> </CODEBASE>
> >>> </IMPLEMENTATION>
> >>> </CODE>
> >>> </MSICD::NATIVECODE>
> >>></SOFTPKG>
> >>>--
> >>>
> >>>Anyone recognise this PI-based usage - is it a pre-namespaces-rec
> >>>syntax, or what?
> >>>
> >>>Francis.
> >>>
> >>>
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