- From: Christopher R. Maden <crm@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:12:30 GMT
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> The SGML "promise", as I understand it, is that the result of > fetching an entity referred to by a Public Identifier will be the > same today, tomorrow and always, here and in Madagascar and on the > Moon. Not true - see clause 10.2.2.5. That clause only applies to "public text for which a _public text display version_ ([90]) could have been specified but was not" (despite the fact that "if the public text is device-dependent, the text identifier must include a _public text display version_ ([90])"). The important precedent here is that the same *logical* text is fetched. For example, "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Publishing//EN" might get SDATA entities tailored for DynaText, or ones appropriate to ArborText. The same *logical* construct is fetched either way. Likewise, a DTD with added ICADD #FIXED attributes is really a display version of the same logical text and should be alternately retrievable. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden One Richmond Square DynaText SIT Technical Support Providence, RI 02906 USA Inso Corporation +1.401.421.9550 (voice) Electronic Publishing Solutions +1.401.521.2030 (facsimile)
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