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Subject: RE: [entity-resolution] XML Catalogs information
Will do my best :-) Mary > -----Original Message----- > From: Lauren Wood [mailto:lauren@textuality.com] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:18 PM > To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org > Cc: entity-resolution@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [entity-resolution] XML Catalogs information > > Mary, > > if you find it appropriate, the Entity Resolution TC would > like you to include the attached information about catalogs > to the notification of the vote that you are sending out to > the OASIS member companies. > > regards, > > Lauren Wood, ER TC Chair > > -------------------- > > XML documents and data often reference other external resources. > Often the referencing information is not sufficient to locate > the desired resource unambiguously, or the resource is not > accessible at the given location at the time it is required, > or it is preferable that an alternate resource be used in > place of the referenced resource. > > For example: > > 1. External identifiers may require resources that are not > always available. For example, a system identifier that > points to a resource on another machine may be inaccessible > if a network connection is not available. > > 2. External identifiers may require protocols that are not > accessible to all of the tools on a single computer system. > An external identifier that is addressed with the FTP > protocol, for example, is not accessible to a tool that does > not support that protocol. > > 3. It is often convenient to access resources using system > identifiers that point to local resources. Exchanging > documents that refer to local resources with other systems is > problematic at best and impossible at worst. > > 4. Incoming XML documents may reference customized versions > of standard XML schemas. To protect your systems, it is > necessary to remap the schema references so that known, > trusted copies of the schemas are used. > > Entity Resolution is the process by which these resource > references can be mapped to another version of the reference > that can be found or that is preferred for other reasons. To > address these issues, the OASIS XML Catalog specification > defines an application-independent entity catalog that maps > external identifiers and URI references to > (other) URI references. > > Entity resolution catalogs have already been widely > implemented in much deployed software. Promoting the OASIS > XML Catalog specification to an OASIS Standard is crucial for > continued interoperability of XML applications. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS > TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group > and all your TCs in OASIS > at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgr > oups.php >
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