- From: W. Eliot Kimber <eliot@isogen.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 08:12:01 -0900
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 05:20 AM 12/6/96 -0500, Paul Prescod wrote: >> By saying "can simply use system IDs" are you implying that you would >> always have a system ID even if you also had a public identifier? I'm not >> sure I'd want to require a system ID in all cases. > >I think that any document that is published on the Web should have system >IDs for all entities. That could be in an SGML Open Catalog if we make SOCAT >handling a mandatory default resolution mechanism, or inline, if we do not. >Lee is right to complain that there must be a URL somewhere, or else we are >just handwaving. What about for data content notations? As many notations don't have publicly accessible definition documents (which is what the external identifier of a notation is supposed to refer to first and foremost), it's seems unreasonable to require URLs for them. (If this issue's already been discussed, let me know--I haven't had time to go back and read all the traffic since SGML '96.) Cheers, E. -- W. Eliot Kimber (eliot@isogen.com) Senior SGML Consulting Engineer, Highland Consulting 2200 North Lamar Street, Suite 230, Dallas, Texas 75202 +1-214-953-0004 +1-214-953-3152 fax http://www.isogen.com (work) http://www.drmacro.com (home) "Rats in the morning, rats in the afternoon...if they don't go away, I'll be re-educated soon..." --Austin Lounge Lizards, "1984 Blues"
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