XCatalog (now XMLCatalog)

[James Tauber]

> I thought the idea of using sysIDs with publicIDs in the XML doc instance
> was kinda screwy...  Who's idea was that anyway?

I think some people felt that have just publicIDs would cause problems
because there was no widespread resolution mechanism deployed on the Web[1].
As XML 1.0 stands, people can use publicIDs if they want to but must provide
a sysID fall-back.

James

[1] of course, my DELEGATE extension to catalogs was designed to provide
exactly such a mechanism.


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