- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:24:18 -0600
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org, w3c-html-wg@w3.org
In the latest XHTML DTDs [1], the external entity declarations used to reference the "Character mnemonic entities", e.g.: <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin1//EN//HTML" "HTMLlat1x.ent"> %HTMLlat1; have relative system identifiers (e.g., "HTMLlat1x.ent"). While this usually works if the processor knows how to canonicalize relative paths properly and the desired files are in the proper location relative to the DTD file, this seems unnecessarily fragile for such an important DTD. Given that the WWW is pretty much based on URLs for accessing things, it seems that making these absolute, e.g.: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/DTD/HTMLlat1x.ent might make sense. This is, after all, from where the authoritative copies must be gotten in the first place. paul [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd etc.
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