- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:13:20 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 09:50 PM 19/03/97 -0800, Terry Allen wrote: >This spec constrains processors/parser, posits applications, but >in its current version makes no requirements on apps (have I missed >something?) Correct; the spec says nothing about app behavior, just about what the processor gives the app; which is As It Should Be. The app in the current spec exists merely to give the processor a reason to exist. So wrt resolution of public identifiers, it's crystal clear that the spec would discuss this as *processor* behavior. There is an interesting follow-on question: since processors are already required (in some circumstances) to resolve URLs, should we say that a PUBLIC identifier is merely, as Terry suggests, a redirect, and more specifically, a redirect to a System Identifier (i.e. URL for now)? -Tim
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