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Subject: comments and concerns
When dealing with entity resolution and catalogs, my principal
preoccupation
goes to the applicability and usability.
I'm not sure whether these should be formulated as comments or
as formal
issues, but I'll enumerate them here, subject to
discussion:
a) Interoperability/compatibility
Many of the XML processors (not all, I recognize) also deal
with SGML and
are expected to perform well in both environments. In
the opinion of software
developpers and implementers (which I am not), do we feel that
the new syntax
and formats can be treated equally well in a "dual"
processor?
b) Migration
In many areas, complex SGML applications are being
migrated to simpler,
swifter XML applications. Would it be conceivable that
tools be developped
to migrate SGML (OASIS) catalogs to the new XML format?
Coudl OASIS
entertain the notion of subsidizing the development of such
tools?
c) Explicit catalog reference
In all SGML catalog applications,
the processor was responsible for locating
and resolving the catalog entries in a processor-specific
manner; many of us would have
liked, is the ability to indicate explicitely in the instance,
the catalog to be used,
overriding the processors' defaults. There might be an
opportunity here to implement
such an option, perhaps via the use of a "recommended"
processing instruction.
Looking forward to read everyone's comments.
Normand (the other Norm)
--- Haec sed satis, vale et me ama
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