- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 09:23:19 -0500
- To: Charles@SGMLsource.com, Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Cc: mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com (Martin Bryan), dgd@cs.bu.edu, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 08:46 AM 12/1/96 GMT, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >>> >I add a new suggestion, that by allowing a _list_ of URIs in the SYSTEM ID, >>> >we can have all the advantages of PUBLIC, without the drawback of the new >>> >syntax. (I don't know what this drawback is, but some people obviously feel >>> >that there is one).] >>> >>> All you need to do for this is adopt the WG8 Formal System Identifiers approach, >>> which already allows this and more. >> >>[HyTime Annex D] is almost 500 lines. Do you want the whole thing? Isn't that >>a little bit of overkill if the only thing we avoid is adding PUBLIC to the >>XML spec? > >We don't need the whole thing, any more than we needed all of 8879. We used the "essential" parts of 8879. It doesn't make sense to make reference to HyTime Annex D if all we want from it is the ability to specify multiple storage identifiers. Paul Prescod
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