Allow @hrefs starting with irc:// about epubcheck HOT 5 CLOSED

From [email protected] on June 05, 2008 13:02:12

Patch above has typo. Use new patch (attached).

Attachment: irc_support.patch

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From [email protected] on June 05, 2008 13:09:21

I've also got urls with smb://, news://, and vnc://. Can I get those too?

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From [email protected] on June 05, 2008 13:24:25

I think that this should still be at least a WARNING if not an error if the requested
scheme isn't registered. http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html Now there are a number of other unregistered schemes out there but which ones can
.epub readers really be expected to understand? I think throwing errors or warnings
is reasonable behavior if your using an unregistered URI scheme.

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From [email protected] on June 05, 2008 13:25:42

Gavin is right. I change my request to allow the decision between warning or error on
unregistered schemes via a command-line flag.

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From [email protected] on June 24, 2008 10:09:49

Yes, this is a valid issue.
I have just checked in the fix. Now, epubcheck will generate an error whenever a non-registered schema-type
is used in an href. The list of registered schematypes is held in the resource registeredSchemas.txt under the
com.adobe.epubcheck.ops package. If you want to go ahead and use an unregistered schema-type and not
get a warning, simply add your schema-type url beginning (eg: irc://) to the end of the list.

Hope this solves the issue to your satisfaction.

-Piotr

PS: The epubcheck will still report errors if you give it a bad value for the href attribute.

Status: Fixed

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