Public Comment

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Comment from: bobs@sagehill.net

Name: Bob Stayton
Title:  Principal Consultant
Organization:  Sagehill Enterprises
Regarding Specification: XML Catalogs Committee Specification 1.0, 03 June 2003

If a catalog has a group with prefer="public", and it contains both
"system" and "public" entries for a resource, and an external identifier
contains both a public and system identifier, shouldn't the public
identifier be checked in the catalog first?  According to section 7.1.2
"Resolution of External Identifiers" in the XML Catalog spec, step 2 says a
matching "system" entry is used regardless, and the public identifier would
never be considered (since it is in step 5).  But step 5 seems to contradict
step 2. Shouldn't step 5 appear before step 2 in the resolution order?