Re: FPIs

>The only thing in practice today that an FPI gives you is that you can
>compare it to one in a printed standard... anything downloaded over the
>net is likely to differ from the formally published text anyway, and there
>is not yet any way to resolve FPIs automatically that does not involve
>writing a letter to the GCA or ISO...

Broken practice isn't a reason not to design something correctly in the
first place. Had URIs preceded HTML, we'd see a very different Web today.

>If you want the kind of indirection a catalog gives you, you can use
>Apache 1.1 and put Redirect or Alias commands in an .htaccess file.

This may work, but would you advocate this to a Fortune 500 as a solution?

>For non-Internet use, I don't see FPIs as an issue right now.

Agreed. But I'm assuming we'll want to use XML on the Internet, where FPIs
will be, if not essential, at least very useful.

Murray

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Received on Tuesday, 26 November 1996 15:46:36 UTC