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Unlike SGML, which specified a syntax for public identifiers, and a more-or-less formal interpretation, XML treats them as simple strings, and suggests only that they may be used "to generate an alternative" URI reference, where the default is of course contained in the system identifier. I am curious about what sorts of things developers are doing with public identifiers, if anything at all. Are you still using SGML-style formal public identifiers, out of habit, or necessity? Are there any efforts to formalize other semantics for the field, for example as a way of specifying alternative resolution strategies for the system identifier? // Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@s...>
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