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Subject: Re: Placement of the oasis-xml-catalog PI




Norman Walsh wrote:

> / John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> was heard to say:
> | Norman Walsh wrote:
> | 
> | > Now I think I do. I've looked over the SAX API again and I don't see
> | > how the processor can tell when the <!DOCTYPE declaration has been
> | > encountered...
> | 
> | Well, the first time that resolveEntity is invoked (if it ever is),
> | the DOCTYPE declaration has definitely been reached.  So if the
> | PI always comes before the DOCTYPE declaration, then it is guaranteed
> | to have been processed before the first need to resolve anything.
> | 
> | IIRC we actually require the PI to come before anything that
> | needs catalog resolution, such as a stylesheet link.
> 
> I'd like to express that requirement differently: the PI has no effect
> on the resolution of external identifiers or URIs that occur before
> the PI.

I think this works; are there any oddities with internal and external 
subsets that might trip us up? I can't think of any but just in case 
somebody else can...

Lauren



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