Re: URL better than FPI

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, David Carlisle wrote:

> Under whose rules? I can see _nothing_ in the XML spec that puts any
> constraints on the public identifier except that it consists of PubidChar.
> So as long as the URI is encoded in (say) utf8 and then %HH encode any
> disallowed characters, it would appear that that would be usable as
> the public identifier (although it would break any sgml based system
> expecting an FPI)

I thought every valid & well-formed XML document was a valid SGML
document?

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