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Subject: Re: Unwrapping urn:public:...
Norm Walsh wrote; >I think going the last step and allowing -//* to match "urn:publicid:-:*" >adding unnecessary confusion for users and burden for implementors. I have been thinking this all along. I cannot truly understand why we have reinvented the nomenclature for the white space in the url either. Is not '%20' good enough? Regards, David Leland ************************************************************ ndw@nwalsh.com wrote on 5/8/01 1:34:01 PM ************************************************************ / 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 -- Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM | It is a general error to imagine the loudest XML Standards Engineer | complainers for the public to be the most Technology Dev. Group | anxious for its welfare.--Edmund Burke, 1769 Sun Microsystems, Inc. | ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: entity-resolution-request@lists.oasis-open.org ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Get your free e-mail account with *unlimited* storage at http://www.ftnetwork.com Visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com
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