Re: Catalog Requirements (resend after 2-day bounce)

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
| > 3. I think it will open the door to the question of how many different
[...]
| I do think that if we are introducing general URI-URI rewriting, we do
| have to go here, although the syntax URI NAMESPACE "uri" "uri" might be
| better.  (I think generalized 9401 parsers can parse that even if
| they don't understand it, right?)

Well, in fact we're doing this in XML, so it'll probably be something
like

  <uri type="namespace" uri="xxx" soi="yyy"/>

I'm just using 9401 ASCII syntax in mail because it's more terse
(terser?). And no, I'm not seriously proposing those attribute names :-)

| Of course, we could dispense with this by not doing generalized
| URI-URI rewriting, but only rewriting system ids and public ids.
| Maybe not as universal, but easier to delimit.

That's what I'm thinking. I'm not sure it's enough, though.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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