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Subject: Re: URN for Simplified DocBook and DocBook XML
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say: | Peter Ring wrote: | |> Sometimes, I like to use URNs for system identifiers in XML files; this |> ensures that entity resolution goes through my catalog files, and not to |> random files in the file system or on the net. | | This is not good practise IMHO. System identifier should always work | and thus you should use URL pointing to the publicly available | resource. All catalog implementation which I know allow you to | override also system identifiers so you can gain benefits of catalog | files on your local system and still your document work also without | any catalog at all. | | So I will recommend you to use following URL | | http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd I think that's a matter of taste. If you have a closed system, there's nothing technically wrong with using URNs. I've been tempted on more than one occasion to use them in href attributes on xsl:import, for example. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Great success is commoner than http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | real abilities.--Vauvenargues Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+ylkxOyltUcwYWjsRAvYhAJ9VRelSNy19eymqphjFQrXYsomt3gCfSS30 e21umtHkZ6gxCNQ0uqe1lD8= =KdqT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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