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RE: FW: living fossil?

• To: <francis@r...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: FW: living fossil?
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:16:57 -0800
• Thread-index: AcG0gTSPlZ8zz4E+R/eXP3X+Me8NxwAYsHsA
• Thread-topic: FW: living fossil?

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@r...]
>  >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:56 AM
>  >>>To: xml-dev
>  >>>Subject:  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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