Public Identifiers

[John Cowan]

Michael Kay wrote:

> I think this response is referring to SGML rather than XML.
> There is no SGML declaration in XML. There is no normative
> link between XML and SGML, and therefore no normative link
> between XML Public Identifiers and SGML FPIs.

Normative, no, but James Clark's SGML declaration
(http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215) has some
standing, since it is referred to in the XML Rec.
That says "FEATURES OTHER FORMAL NO".
Nevertheless, most PublicIds in examples are FPIs.
 
> ... public identifiers are a trick inherited from SGML that
> are probably only useful to people who already have working
> SGML software installed.

Coming soon: an SAX EntityResolver that processes Socats.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)