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[Bullard, Claude L (Len)] > The PUBLIC identifier, as you know, can have interesting > information in it that has nothing to do with dereferencing > a representation from a resource over a network protocol. > Are you saying the URI in the PUBLIC id would point to a document > for getting that information? > > That would also mean that nothing can be done with XML unless > it is done "on the web". PUBLIC IDs are a way to hook up > to other systems. You would be legislating away that right. > I just took it that John meant to use a __non-dereferenceable__ URI as an identifier, since using URIs as has become standard practice by now (xslt, RDF, OWL...). Now you could really confuse people by using a retrievable http: URL for the Public Identifier! Cheers, Tom P
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