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Subject: Re: [entity-resolution] (Fwd) Re: [entity-resolution] Mixing XMLCatalog and TR9401
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / "Lauren Wood" <lauren@textuality.com> was heard to say: | On 24 Mar 2003 at 18:26, Paul Grosso wrote: |> |> Not necessarily. When we discussed this, I know Norm and I planned |> that our implementations (which already handle TR9401 catalogs) would |> accept either kind of catalog. However, that is admittedly not something |> required by any given XML Catalog implementation. Which is just what |> I think our wording says: if an app cannot understand a catalog, it's |> as if there was no such resource. | | That makes sense to me. | | If I understand Daniel's point, he does implement TR 9401 (or at | least some of it) and XML Catalogs, but doesn't want to have the | latter call the former (doesn't want to have a <nextCatalog> element | point to a TR 9401 catalog), i.e. doesn't want to have his | implementations mixed. So the case of "doesn't understand" doesn't | really apply here AFAICS. (If this bit of logic is faulty, please let | me know. I'm only too willing to believe that I've got myself | slightly confused). I think "doesn't understand" applies. One implementation doesn't understand the other. | Is this a case we want to discuss in the spec? If so, do we want to | specify that implementors that implement both TR 9401 and XML | Catalogs must support <nextCatalog> pointing to a TR 9401 catalog? Or | do we want to allow them to not support this? I've added words to express what I think we should do, which is require conforming applications to understand XML Catalog entry files and allow them (but not require them) to understand other formats. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM | Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have XML Standards Architect | only a faint light to guide me. A stranger Web Tech. and Standards | appears and says to me: "My friend, you Sun Microsystems, Inc. | should blow out your candle in order to find | your way more clearly." This man is a | theologian.--Diderot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+oFvrOyltUcwYWjsRArYpAJ9BvSQ20I5tNo7axPR7tLv0WuH5KQCfcxmg VdSFCaxcfV4XOhEAsr+EP8k= =ZjkH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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