[BioC] placement of DTD files in a package?

[Robert Gentleman]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:19:56PM -0800, Anthony Rossini wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > So, do DTD files get placed under data or in a completely separate location, for installation purposes?  (i.e. ../package/data, ../package/inst/xml,  or ../package/inst/dtd, or other??)
> > >
> > 
> > i know of no convention on this.  we may not need one.
> > package code that uses the DTD will have to be explicit
> > about its location.  any of the choices you list may
> > be appropriate depending on the visibility and separateness
> > of resources desired by the package designer.
> >
> > does this lead to cacophony in package structure?
> > i don't think so.
> 
> I think I agree with you.  I don't have strong feelings on the matter, other than if a standard workflow for determination exists, that I might as well use it.  The context is the DTD describing the XML format for a dataset.  I'm tempted to stick it in ../package/inst/dtd, but was wondering how others have dealt with it.  I sent the question here, since the number of package developers using R XML outside of this particular mailing list seems small.
> 
  Me either, somehow I think of it (at least a bit) as data so I like
 package/inst/data
  but almost anything is fine
  we just need to ensure it gets copied over to the installation
  directory so it can get found automatically.




> best,
> -tony
> 
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