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* Didier PH Martin wrote:
>> All servers supporting content negotiation, Apache and
>> Jigsaw to mention two.
>
>Didier replies:
>Have you tried it?
For years now, yes.
>Have you tried to send an HTTP GET to an Apache server
>with this kind of request:
>
>GET /myfolder/mydoc.xml
>host: www.mydomain.com
>accept: text/svg
>
>Have you tried it in both cases:
>a) if a document mydoc.svg is stored in the same directory as mydoc.xml
Yes. Apache will send the generic XML document. Have you tried setting
Options +MultiViews
in the .htaccess file and requesting
GET /myfolder/mydoc HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.com
Accept: text/svg
Connection: close
Apache will send the text/svg document, if that's the associated MIME
type for .svg documents and there is a mydoc.svg in that directory.
Request
GET /myfolder/mydoc HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.com
Accept: application/xml
Connection: close
and Apache will send the mydoc.xml document if there is any and
application/xml is the associated MIME type. Requesting
GET /myfolder/mydoc HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.com
Accept: text/html
Connection: close
will result in error 406 if there is no mydoc.* document with text/html
beeing the associated MIME type. This is all explained in detail in the
manual.
>b) in a directory containing only mydoc.xml and a stylesheet associated to
>it to transform the document in svg.
Since Apache does not ship with the ability to associate transformation
sheets including resulting MIME type to files, no, I haven't tried it,
it won't work.
>Can cocoon do that on the basis of the "accept" header?
Dunno, I hope so.
>Bjoern said:
>> Does not make sense to me, if I want to publish a document, I use XHTML,
>> if I want to publish a vector graphic, I use SVG. Having the same
>> content in XHTML and SVG seems to be inappropriate use of one of these
>> technologies
>
>Didier replies:
>You think so? why? Maybe I want to use SVG for a particular layout like a
>two column composition. Maybe I want HTML for less sophisticated browsers
>and SVG for more sophisticated browsers in terms of layout capabilities.
>Maybe I am using an XML structure having more semantic elements than XHTML
>and that I am using HTML and SVG as rendering languages.
SVG is for vector graphics, if I have a lot of text I want to publish on
the WWW, I won't use a graphics format.
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