Re: agenda for ER TC teleconference 20010507

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
| 
| > Unwrapped!? Perhaps this is more insidious than I thought.
| > 
| > Are you suggesting that
| > 
| >   urn:publicid:-:OASIS:DTD+DocBook+XML+V4.1.2:EN
| > 
| > should *match*
| > 
| >   PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "docbook.dtd"
| 
| I don't know whether your last line there is a 9401-style
| catalog entry, or an SGML/XML external identifier: they have
| exactly the same syntax!

I meant the former. I should have used the XML Catalog format.
Bad norm! No biscuit.

| I meant that if your catalog has a mapping for the public id
| "-//OASIS/DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN", then an external
| identifier giving the public id above should be satisified by it.
| 
| Why not?

That's more deeply insidious than I had imagined. I'm going to have
to think about that...

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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