- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:35:51 -0500
- To: Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@uic.edu>
Steven Champeon wrote: > > I just spent some time looking over the XML docs, Cite a source! Give a URL! Do the right thing! http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly#cite 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. -- Dan Connolly, W3C Architecture Domain Lead <connolly@w3.org> +1 512 310-2971 http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ PGP:EDF8 A8E4 F3BB 0F3C FD1B 7BE0 716C FF21
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