Re: locating schemas via public ids

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com> was heard to say:
| My suggested answers:  Lauren should tell Laura what we're doing and
| we should plan to cc her on the email we send.  We (Lauren or her
| designate--I'm willing if designated) should inform the XML CG and 
| cc them on the email to XML Schema.

Sounds like a plan.

| The OASIS Entity Resolution Technical Committee (OERTC) [1] is
| chartered to developed an entity resolution catalog format in XML

               develop

[...]
| Many implementors and users have found public ids and entity
| management catalogs to be very usefulness in practical situations

                                 useful

[...]
| [7] Not to presume to constrain a solution to the problem, but
|     even something such as the following might be acceptable:
|     Say that each member--that is currently a URI--is optionally
|     delimited by quotes and consists of either a SystemLiteral
|     (production 11 in XML 1.0) OR the second half of the
|     disjunction in production 75, to wit:
|       'PUBLIC' S PubidLiteral S SystemLiteral
|     (which, since it contains spaces, would necessarily be quoted).

I'm not sure this is sufficient, unless you mean to assert that
if-and-only-if it's quoted, it's to be assumed to be a public
identifier. I think there needs to be some way to distinguish public
identifiers from system identifiers in the schema hints list.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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