Re: Unwrapping urn:public:...

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ dcpleland@ftnetwork.com was heard to say:
| 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?

It's awfully clunky in your typical public identifier:

 -//Norman Walsh//DTD Simplified DocBook XML V4.1.2.2//EN

 -:Norman%20Walsh:DTD%20Simplified%20DocBook%20XML%20V4.1.2.2:EN

I really do prefer:

 -:Norman+Walsh:DTD+Simplified+DocBook+XML+V4.1.2.2:EN

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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