[Clipart] Namespace as part of validation

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:20 +0300, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> Greg Steffensen wrote:
> > I ran into this problem when parsing clipart with libxml2.  Would it be 
> > simpler just to say that images must be valid xml?  I believe that would 
> > cover this issue.  There's a tradeoff, of course, in that you create a 
> > new obstacle to contribution, but considering how much we try to process 
> > the images programmatically, I think this is a relatively minor hurdle.
> 
> I don't think this would be a good idea: from the beginning, one of the 
> main objective of the project was to keep the barrier to contribute as 
> low as possible and we believe this was one of the key elements of our 
> success so far.
> This is why I thin adding the namespace declaration at upload time or as 
> part of the release process (if not present) is a better solution 
> compared with rejecting the images lacking it.

Yes, I completely agree...we have to allow us much as we can fix, save
the original (in case we broke the file), and then move forward.

Its all about low barriers.

Jon

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