[clahey at ximian.com: docbook mime type detection]

[Luis Villa]

On 7/26/05, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:02 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On 7/26/05, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> > > Hey Luis,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:48 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > >
> > > > <mime-info
> > > > xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
> > > >  <mime-type type="application/docbook+xml">
> > > >   <sub-class-of type="text/xml"/>
> > > >   <comment xml:lang="en">Docbook XML Document</comment>
> > > >   <magic priority="60">
> > > >    <match type="string" value='docbookx.dtd' offset="0:200"/>
> > >
> > > Do you really need to go 200 bytes into the file? The further you need
> > > to go into the file, the more expensive it is. I would also add that my
> > > text file mentioning "docbookx.dtd" would get detected as a docbook
> > > file, not good.
> >
> > Yeah, knew this one was imperfect; I can clean it up if people
> > actually want to go this way to sniff things.
> >
> > > >   </magic>
> > > >   <glob pattern="*.xml"/>
> > >
> > > That's not good. text/xml files are already detected with *.xml.
> >
> > What would be preferable then? 

So you answered the second question but not the first :)

> > (I looked for what ogg tarkin does, but
> > no success- seems it isn't in the primary DB either?)
> 
> Ogg Tarkin isn't a filetype. Tarkin is the video codec, Ogg is the
> container. Only the container has a mime-type (this is slightly
> different for some other video types because they have different file
> extensions for different purposes).
> 
> > > >  </mime-type>
> > > > </mime-info>
> > >
> > > You got the gist of it, but it's not commitable.
> >
> > Well, I didn't figure that ;) like I said, Works For Me, but if people
> > actually want it committed I can play a bit more.
> 
> Sure, what's the point otherwise? :)

So that I can finally be one of those shitty downstreamers who doesn't
upstream fixes, just like I complain about all the time ;)

Luis