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RE: How did "public identifier" get its name...

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• Subject: RE: How did "public identifier" get its name...
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:23:03 +0100
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> Subject:  How did "public identifier" get its name...
> 
> 
> ...and what does the "public" indicate?
> 

A public identifier in XML is just a string, it is not required to be
either public or an identifier.

I think the name was chosen because the authors of the spec had it in
mind that people would use them to hold SGML public identifiers, which
are a previous and only partially successful attempt at doing URIs, i.e.
globally unique names for resources.

Michael Kay

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