At 9:34 AM 1/23/97, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: >Let me add to this question: should the SGML standard add syntax to bind >document entities to their external identifiers (which would, by the >definition of external identifier, include both system IDs (and thus, >potentially, URLs or URNs) and publid identifiers)? Yes. But SYSTEM IDs should not be included. In SGML, they are reserved for "non-portable" identifiers, so making documents self-identifying in this way would probably be a mistake, since it would only contribute to the portation of the explicitly non-portable. -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________Received on Thursday, 23 January 1997 13:41:31 EST
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