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Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook/XML catalog question
Hi, On Monday 17 October 2005 19:14, Michael Smith wrote: > Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> writes: > > On Monday 10 October 2005 19:55, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > > [... removed catalog entries, pointing all to the same file > > independend of version number ...] > > > > > > I am a bit hesitant to do > > > this, due to the fact that if you explicitely want to validate > > > against 4.1.2 or 4.2 you will have a bit wider specification if you > > > use 4.4's DTD. > > > > Your feelings are right. There are subtle changes from one version to > > the other. For example, the xml:base attribute is introduced in > > version 4.3 (if I remember correct.) Documents will fail if they are > > validated against version 4.2 and below. > > But note that with the catalog setup Jeroen describes above, that > would never happen. In this case, yes. > Because users would always end up validating > against the latest version of the DTD. This is true, if a user /have/ the latest version of the DTD. But from a catalog perspective, I am hesitent to give a user version 4.3 if the document requested 4.1.2. I know it shouldn't be harmful. It is a matter of the "least common surprise". :) Bye, Tom -- Thomas Schraitle
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