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Subject: Re: [entity-resolution-comment] Some queries on the XMLCatalogsspec
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say: |> | Step 3 of 7.1.2 does not mention that the rewriteSystem entry with the |> | longest systemIdStartString is the only one used. This is stated in |> | 6.5.5, but it should be explicit in the description of the algorithm. |> |> Fixed. | | ... and the same for rewriteURI in 7.2.2. Fixed. |> | Is there a recommended way to handle external identifiers when parsing |> | catalog files themselves? Obviously they cannot be looked up in the |> | catalog. Is it reasonable to have a copy of catalog.dtd built-in to |> | the parser and special-case its system and public identifiers? |> |> This is a *really* good point and one that I stumbled over just |> recently myself. |> |> (Lauren, I'd like to discuss this at the next meeting.) |> |> Richard, what do you think the right answer is? | | For RXP, I use a special entity resolver while reading catalog files. | If an entity has either the system ID or the public ID of the catalog | DTD, it uses a compiled-in copy of the DTD, otherwise it just uses the | system ID as a URI in the normal way without any catalog processing. | I suppose a schema processor that uses a catalog to fetch schemas | might do the same sort of thing. Makes sense. At the telcon today, we agreed to make a note of this in the spec. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM | The common excuse of those who bring XML Standards Architect | misfortune on others is that they desire Web Tech. and Standards | their good.--Vauvenargues Sun Microsystems, Inc. | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+pZFnOyltUcwYWjsRAtbyAJsFsUIiFL6wQihnpPjPkeHWkFjpIgCfd3L6 ka7AnAEkF84byLxW5CMZtj8= =q+OL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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