Re: Unwrapping urn:public:...

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Tony Coates <Tony.Coates@reuters.com> was heard to say:
| On 07/05/2001 15:36:51 Norman Walsh wrote:
| 
| >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"
| 
| Interesting idea this, but so far we have only defined a mapping
| from FPIs to URNs.  For this to work robustly, we need to define the
| reverse mapping, and we need to be able to round-trip without
| introducing changes.  If we can do that, then I guess we could allow
| either format to appear in the catalogue, depending on the local
| preference.

That's an even greater extension and I think it's going to far.

Right now:

  urn:publicid:* would match "urn:publicid:*"

The proposal, as I understand it, is that we should allow

  urn:publicid:-:* to match "-//*"

I think going the last step and allowing

  -//* to match "urn:publicid:-:*"

is adding unnecessary confusion for users and burden for implementors.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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