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Re: XML Conformance Levels [Was: ERB Decisions of March 26th]

From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:25:27 -0500
Message-Id: <v03007801af605da5adcc@[128.148.19.149]>
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 2:04 AM +0000 3/27/97, Peter Flynn wrote:
>At 16:54 26/03/97 -0800, Terry wrote:
>>it's not clear to me that the SGML ERB would settle for PUBLIC=URN
>>rather than PUBLIC=public-per-8879.
>
>I don't see any advantage. The latter already works: URN's aren't in
>use yet.

   And even when they come into use (over the next few months, I hope), we
won't be able to use them with XML, which currently has no way to support
location- or resolution mechanism-independent naming.

  -- David

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