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>> I'm wondering if there is any standardization of what's in a "public >> identifier" > >The SGML standard (ISO 8879) defines something called a 'formal public >identifier' (clause 10.2), but whether public identifiers must be FPIs >or not is defined by the SGML declaration used. > >In other words: public identifiers can be whatever you want, but you >can declare them to be FPIs. I think this response is referring to SGML rather than XML. There is no SGML declaration in XML. There is no normative link between XML and SGML, and therefore no normative link between XML Public Identifiers and SGML FPIs. XML does not require a Public Identifier to be either public or an identifier; you can put anything in there that you like, and it has no defined meaning. Tim Bray's annotated XMl spec (on www.xml.com) has this to say: ... public identifiers are a trick inherited from SGML that are probably only useful to people who already have working SGML software installed. Remember that if you use public identifiers within your own organization, that's perfectly OK, but if you want to interchange XML documents with anybody external, they have the right to demand, and you have the obligation to provide, a working system identifier (URI) for each external entity. Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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