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diff --git a/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/tdeioslave/data.docbook b/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/tdeioslave/data.docbook new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..fe7f3908dda --- /dev/null +++ b/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/tdeioslave/data.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +<article lang="&language;" id="data"> +<title +>Data URLs</title> + +<articleinfo> +<authorgroup> +<author +><personname +><firstname +>Leo</firstname +><surname +>Savernik</surname +></personname +> <address +><email +>l.savernik@aon.at</email +></address +> </author> +<othercredit role="translator" +><firstname +>Malcolm</firstname +><surname +>Hunter</surname +><affiliation +><address +><email +>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email +></address +></affiliation +><contrib +>Conversion to British English</contrib +></othercredit +> +</authorgroup> + +<date +>2003-02-06</date> +<!--releaseinfo +>2.20.00</releaseinfo--> + +</articleinfo> + +<para +>Data URLs allow small document data to be included in the URL itself. This is useful for very small HTML testcases or other occasions that do not justify a document of their own.</para> + +<para +><userinput +>data:,foobar</userinput +> (note the comma after the colon) will deliver a text document that contains nothing but <literal +>foobar</literal +> </para> + +<para +>The last example delivered a text document. For HTML documents one has to specify the MIME type <literal +>text/html</literal +>: <userinput +>data:text/html,<title>Testcase</title><p>This is a testcase</p></userinput +>. This will produce exactly the same output as if the content had been loaded from a document of its own. </para> + +<para +>Specifying alternate character sets is also possible. Note that 8-Bit characters have to be escaped by a percentage sign and their two-digit hexadecimal codes: <userinput +>data:;charset=iso-8859-1,Gr%FC%DFe aus Schl%E4gl</userinput +> results in <literal +>Grüße aus Schlägl</literal +> whereas omitting the charset attribute might lead to something like <literal +>Gr??e aus Schl?gl</literal +> </para> + +<para +><ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt" +>IETF RFC2397</ulink +> provides more information.</para> + +</article> + |