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Paul Prescod scripsit: > If the author has said explcitly "Here is where to find > this thing" then the system should not waste time trying to indirect it at > the source of the reference (in the processor) though it might do so at > the target of the reference (in the filesystem, at the HTTP server, etc.). Sometimes, however, the user of the document knows better than the author. For example, a downloaded document with relative links can benefit from an *ad hoc* catalog that expands them. Similarly, a *pro forma* SystemId on an overworked server may be usefully converted to a local cached copy. > In other words, I think that the SYSTEM declaration in SOCAT is probably a > bad idea. I take a more limited view: "Avoid SYSTEM entries in publicly available catalogs." -- John Cowan cowan@c... e'osai ko sarji la lojban. 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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