Re: [dita] Catalog files as part of the submission?

["W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>]

Jarno.Elovirta@nokia.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
>>> When you say URI, do you mean URLs or URNs that use the OASIS URN
>>>  namespace <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3121.txt>?
>> 
>> For references to resources (external parameter entities, schemas,
>> etc.) I mean URLs that can be resolved using existing,
>> widely-available Web infrastructure.*
> 
> And we just instruct people to use catalog processing (as otherwise
> their XML parser will fetch the DTD files from oasis-open.org site
> every time they parse a DITA document)? If we used URNs for resources
> too, we'd force people to use catalog resolving, so maybe it'd be
> better to use URLs and make the resources retrievable from that URL.
> (It wouldn't take long for people to start using local copies when
> they notice that DTD retrieval is a bottle neck.)

Yes, that is my analysis: don't force people to have to use catalogs for 
resources.

Cheers,

E.

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