RE: XHTML 1.1 DTD, Bug in AElfred (used by saxon)

Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> Christian Wolfgang Hujer <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com>
>
> > Since more XML Parsers and software based on them might have this bug,
> > and since it will take some time until these bugs are fixed, I
> > suggest, that the HTML working group changes the URI of the drivers to
> > be absolute URLs.
>
> Although I have not verified the correctness of all of this, it does
> seem to be pointing in the right direction.
>
> BUT going to absolute URI's is NOT A GOOD IDEA if those URI's are
> network resources.  Surely we don't want all of our parsing to wait
> for the network.  Much less would we want a resource-serving host
> to think that it is experiencing too many hits and, as a result,
> close the referenced resource.
>
> If one likes, the resources can be imported once, and then one can
> substitute "full pathnames".
>
> Much better to get a fixed parser.

Here are citations from the original, unmodified XHTML 1.1 Driver, as it can
be found at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd:
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-inlstyle-1.mod"...
..."xhtml11-model-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-framework-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-text-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-hypertext-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-list-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-edit-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-bdo-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/xhtml-ruby-1.mod"...
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-pres-1.mod"...
I do not continue this list.

I don't understand your argument since the driver already uses tons of
absolute URLs, and this would just one other.

You are right that this could cause a lot of traffic. But the solution for
that is not using relative URI's, the solution for that developing XML
Parsers that cache resources by their public name from e.g. <!ENTITY %
PUBLIC "-//W3C//ELEMENTS XHTML Presentation 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-pres-1.mod"> or by the
absolute URL of the resource (like Proxies do). No reason to scream.


Greetings

Christian Hujer

Received on Friday, 14 September 2001 11:41:20 UTC