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Subject: [entity-resolution] Re: status
> / "Lauren Wood" <lauren@textuality.com> was heard to say: > | at some stage we talked about maybe going for OASIS Standard but > | everyone seems to have been pretty busy since. Our last issue (system > | identifier matching) was discussed a little in January without much > | energy. > > I'm really torn on this issue. For better or worse, actually, let's be > honest, for worse, there are APIs that are built on top of the > resolver such that they call resolveEntity() when they really should > be calling resolveURI(). Yep, I've seen this. I think xsltproc used to behave this way. > That means they're searching for "external identifiers" when they > should be searching for URIs. That's going to mean people have to use > <system ...> when they should be using <uri ...> This is a _very_ common source of confusion. > I wonder if we should compromise a little. Maybe if someone searches > for an external identifier with a null public identifier, we should > search system entries (as we currently do) and if we don't find > anything, we should search uri entries? This sounds reasonable to me, but it kind of shoots the whole SystemID/URI separation in the foot. I'm kinda on the fence here. > | Making the catalogs into an OASIS Standard would cost some time but > | would also give a bit more of a fillip; we would have to do some > | marketing of course (and I'd have to finish that tutorial!) > > I have a marginal preference for getting to OASIS Standard. What are the benefits of being an OASIS Standard over those of being a TC Specification? Cheers, Mark -- ____________________________________________________________ Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org> Debian XML/SGML: <http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org> Home Page: <http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/> GPG fp: DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120 568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242
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