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Table of Contents
Announcements
The XML Catalog Specification V 1.1 became an OASIS Standard on October 1, 2005. The specification is available in PDF, HTML, and XML versions.
Overview
Resources on the web are referenced in many different contexts. In some of these contexts, the resource is not readily available, or isn't trusted. Entity Resolution is the process by which these resource references can be mapped to another version of the reference that can be found, or that is trusted. The Entity Resolution TC is working on a specification of that mapping
that works in several applications and is platform-neutral.
For more information, see the TC Charter (which references an SGML Open specification at Entity
Management (TR9401) and the TC FAQ
Meetings
The TC meets by phone on an unpredictable schedule.
Work Products
OASIS Standard:
XML Catalogs V 1.1, dated October 7, 2005 (PDF)
XML Catalogs V 1.1, dated October 7, 2005 (HTML)
XML Catalogs V 1.1, dated October 7, 2005 (XML)
Materials
List of implementations
Update given at OASIS symposium, April 2005
A more detailed description of Entity Resolution is
Entity resolution is the process that an XML processor goes through when it has been requested
to find a resource in the course of processing the resource it's working on. The XML processor knows
labelling information about the resource such as its system identifier and possibly a name, public identifier,
and so forth. These identifiers can be used to determine the actual location of the desired external resource.
This determination process (which "maps" the known labelling information into an actual location) is called
an entity resolution, and the file that contains the specific mapping information is called the entity
resolution catalog. The resource can be an XML entity or any other resource.
Other Resources
Although not produced by the OASIS Entity Resolution TC, the following information offers useful insights
into entity resolution and how to use entity resolution catalogs.
- Cover Page
- http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-04-04-a.html
- Articles
- http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/resolver/resolver-article.html
http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/xml2003/
- Books
- http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml/chapters/47.html
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/WriteCatalog.html
- Software Documentation (some refers to previous versions of the specification)
- http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html
http://www.movementarian.org/docs/docbook-autotools/catalog.html
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/catalog.html
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/CodeDoc/XML-Catalog/Catalog.html
http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/catalog.html
http://www.weblogic.com/docs51/classdocs/xml.html
http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-02-28/xcatalog
http://www.elcel.com/products/xmlvalidman.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/03/03/catalogs.html
http://xmlcatmgr.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmlcatmgr/
http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/xml-policy/xml-catalogs.html
http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/apidocs/resolver/overview-summary.html
http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xcatalogs.html
Mailing Lists and Comments
Additional Information
Older versions of the specifications are at:
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