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9401:1997 Entity Management
Two different but related issues pertaining to entity management
impede interoperability of SGML documents:
- that of interpreting external identifiers in entity declarations
so that an SGML document can be processed by different vendors'
tools on a single computer system, and
- that of moving SGML documents to different computers in
a way that preserves the association of external identifiers
in entity declarations with the correct files or other storage
objects.
While there are many important issues involved and a complete
solution is beyond the current scope, the OASIS membership
agrees upon the enclosed set of conventions to address a useful
subset of the complete problem. To address issue A, this resolution
defines an entity catalog that maps an entity's external identifier
and/or name to a file name, URL, or other storage object identifier.
To address issue B, this resolution defines a simple interchange
packaging scheme using an interchange catalog to associate
a public identifier with each interchanged file.
This Technical Resolution is available in HTML,
PS, and XML
formats.
Entity
Resolution Technical Committee
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