Re: MIRROR for external entity references in XML?

Steven Champeon wrote:
> 
> I just spent some time looking over the XML docs,

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Shall we assume you are referring to [1]?
[1]http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-xml-961114.html

Hmm... I'm not sure www-html is the best forum for
review comments on that document. This one is
our fault, not yours: the "status of this document"
section should have said where to send review comments.

I have copied the editors...

Tim and CMSM: let's make sure the next revision gets
this right.

> and got to
> thinking a bit.

Always a dangerous thing...

> In section 4.2, the example for parameter
> entity references is as follows:
> 
> <!ENTITY % ISOLat2
>            SYSTEM "http://www.xml.com/iso/isolat2-xml.entities" >
>   %ISOLat2;
> 
> Assuming that Bob Metcalfe is right about the death of the Net,
> or at least its slow grinding descent into saturation, wouldn't
> it make sense to allow for unreachable hosts with a MIRROR alt
> for external refs?

Yes! On the other hand, this is not an XML syntax problem
so much as a generic URL and linking problem. More on that later.

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Received on Wednesday, 16 April 1997 17:36:10 UTC