Re: [dita] Catalog files as part of the submission?

[Christopher Wong <cwong@idiominc.com>]

Don Day wrote:

> Are catalog files (both text and OASIS XML forms) necessarily part of 
> the DTD/Schema submission for the proposed Committee Draft? If so, 
> I'll add them to the "dtd/schema" package after we update the public 
> identifiers. I do not think they are normative, but I could be 
> convinced to include them. I think they tend to be 
> application-specific and merely encode information that is already in 
> the DTDs. However, it is tremendously useful for them to be present in 
> a distribution so that users can configure their local lookups.
>
Since the DITA DTDs are themselves using public IDs (external parameter 
entities), I think it makes sense to provide catalogs for the lookups.

Chris