Site Information

Site Description

A site description may be as simple as a brief text description. Alternately, you may specify a URL pointing to an HTML file. The URL can be specified as absolute of relative. If relative, the URL is assumed to be relative to site.xml.

Site Mirrors

An update site may point to the URL of a file listing update site mirror definitions. This URL can be absolute or relative to this site.

Mirrors File

The updates mirror file (the one specified in the Site Mirrors section above) contains a list of mirror locations. Its format is defined by the following dtd:

<?xml encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!ELEMENT mirrors (mirror*))>

<!ELEMENT mirror EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST mirror
    url           CDATA #REQUIRED    
    label         CDATA #REQUIRED
>

• <mirrors> - defines the available update site mirrors
• <mirror> - defines a mirror site
  • url - the URL of the mirror site
  • label - displayable label. Intended to be translated.