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Subject: Re: system IDs and URIs


Lauren Wood wrote:


> OTOH, we do have two different types of urn mappings as a subset 
> of URI mappings, one of which happens when it starts with 
> urn:publicid, and the other for every other URN, which of course is 
> a subset of URIs; why is that not confusing if having both system 
> and URI mappings is?


*shrug*

urn:publicid: is a kludge to compensate for the fact that the whole
world doesn't have public identifiers.


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