Re: [entity-resolution-comment] Some queries on the XMLCatalogsspec

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
|> | Step 3 of 7.1.2 does not mention that the rewriteSystem entry with the
|> | longest systemIdStartString is the only one used.  This is stated in
|> | 6.5.5, but it should be explicit in the description of the algorithm.
|> 
|> Fixed.
|
| ... and the same for rewriteURI in 7.2.2.

Fixed.

|> | Is there a recommended way to handle external identifiers when parsing
|> | catalog files themselves?  Obviously they cannot be looked up in the
|> | catalog.  Is it reasonable to have a copy of catalog.dtd built-in to
|> | the parser and special-case its system and public identifiers?
|> 
|> This is a *really* good point and one that I stumbled over just
|> recently myself.
|> 
|> (Lauren, I'd like to discuss this at the next meeting.)
|> 
|> Richard, what do you think the right answer is?
|
| For RXP, I use a special entity resolver while reading catalog files.
| If an entity has either the system ID or the public ID of the catalog
| DTD, it uses a compiled-in copy of the DTD, otherwise it just uses the
| system ID as a URI in the normal way without any catalog processing.
| I suppose a schema processor that uses a catalog to fetch schemas
| might do the same sort of thing.

Makes sense. At the telcon today, we agreed to make a note of this in
the spec.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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