- From: Ken Holman <gkholman@microstar.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:57:39 -0500
- To: "'w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org'" <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
>---------- >From: Paul Prescod[SMTP:papresco@csclub.uwaterloo.ca] >Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 1997 11:47 >To: Ken Holman >Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org >Subject: Re: The furore over PUBLIC > >> I gather from draft 961114 that the behaviour of an XML system regarding >> malformed or unresolvable URLs is not specified ... so I figure it is up >> to the implementation. > >That is just a relative URL to the document base URL. So its meaning is >well defined. Would this, then, be an infinitely recursable problem? If the entity refers to the document itself, which contains an entity that refers to the document itself, which contains.... >If you put a really bogus system identifier in, then you >have an incorrect XML document, which is probably what you want in >practice, but at least the XML spec does not "condone" such a thing. Is this a check of well-formedness? ....... Ken -- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@microstar.com Chief Technology Officer Microstar Software Ltd. http://www.microstar.com +1(613)596-2233x317 3775 Richmond Rd., Nepean, Ontario CANADA K2H-5B7 Personal: Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 mailto:gkholman@CanadaMail.com +1(613)489-2987 PGP: http://www.cyberus.ca/~holman/gkholman.pgp
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