Re: B.9 Formal system, public identifiers?

At 21:08 12/10/96 +0100, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
>On 16 October 1996, the ERB will vote to decide the following question.
>A straw poll indicates the question needs further discussion in the work
>group.
>
>B.9 Should XML require system and public identifiers to be FORMAL
>(13.5)?

This needs interpretation. The FORMAL keyword in SGML does not restrict
system identifiers to any formal structure. The important question is:

If system identifiers are retained in XML must they conform to the rules for
formal system identifiers defines in ISO 10744?
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Received on Monday, 14 October 1996 04:40:27 UTC