Formal System Identifiers

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
• Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 07:18:49 -0500 (EST)
• To: mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com (Martin Bryan)
• Cc: dgd@cs.bu.edu, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199611301218.HAA12376@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

> 
> At 14:05 29/11/96 -0500, David G. Durand 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?

 Paul Prescod

References:
[HyTime Annex D]http://www.sil.org/sgml/hi1anfsi.txt

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