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Should we coalesce this thread with the one about URN for namespaces ? Isn't there a similarity between a DTD PUBLIC id and a namespace URN ? Regards, Nicolas >-----Message d'origine----- >De : Rob Lugt [mailto:roblugt@e...] >Envoyé : mercredi 5 septembre 2001 12:26 >À : xml-dev@l... >Objet : Re: XML Public Indentifier > > >Harden ZHU wrote > >> I have some XML docs as >> <!DOCTYPE Catalog PUBLIC "-//PubCatalog" >"http://www.xyz.com/catalog.dtd"> >> >> I don't know how public indentifier works. Is >"-//PubCatalog" a URI? And >> How parser find it and work with it? > >Harden, > >The public identifier is not a URI, but it is a string that >may be used by >the XML parser to access the resource. The XML 1.0 >recommendation did not >specify how public identifiers should be used with the result >that many xml >tools do not process them. > >However, this situation is now changing for the better. OASIS >have created >a specification for a standard XML Catalog that can be used by >the parser to >resolve public identifiers. The OASIS web-page [1] contains >details of the >specification as well as some tools that help you to use it. >If you are >using a Java SAX parser, then you will be interested in Normal >Walsh's Java >Resolver Classes [2] that can be plugged into the popular java parsers. > >Regards, > >Rob > >-- >Rob Lugt >ElCel Technology >http://www.elcel.com > >[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity >[2] http://www.sun.com/xml/developers/resolver/ > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an >initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > >The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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