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Subject: Re: [entity-resolution] SYSTEM identifier use case
On 13 Jan 2004 Anthony B. Coates wrote: > ** Reply to message from "Lauren Wood" <lauren@textuality.com> on Fri, 09 Jan > 2004 10:00:56 -0800 > > > Norm implemented an extension to his resolver which does what I want - > > <ext:systemSuffix suffix="gcapaper.dtd" uri="../dtd/gcapaper.dtd"/> > > but of course it isn't widely implemented. > > > > Is this a use case that other people also think is worth covering in > > the spec? > > My only issue with this is that it seems a bit reactive. If suffix matching is > useful, and of course it is in practice, what other types of matching might be > useful? I guess the question that comes to mind is whether the spec should > just go all the way and support general regular expression matching. I would > rather not just keep adding little bits and pieces in as we discover them. If > someone can make a case that suffix matching *really is* the last thing needed, > then OK. Otherwise, we should try and be a bit predictive about what other > useful cases we might not yet have covered. Well, I haven't yet needed a general regex (which I suspect is harder to implement than the "match from the back" that I'm proposing) - has anyone else come across a use case for it? Lauren
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