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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Tim Bray wrote:
> Another option is
> you could implement a Public Identifier resolver, which is pretty easy
> even though there's not yet a standardized interoperable scheme for this.
Public identfiers don't help here --
Consider:
<!DOCTYPE boy
PUBLIC "anything you like"
"http://www.xml.com/doctypes/boy.dtd"
>
You are still required to resolve the system identifier, and you can't.
The right answer is a URL resolver with a cache, like a web browser
with an "offline" mode.
I agree with David and Tim that the XML processor should have a
switch to turn off DTD processing, and do *not* agree that we
need a more complex specification for this.
XML has already got well out of hand in terms of complexity.
Lee
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Liam Quin, Barefoot Computing, Toronto; The barefoot programmer
Ankh on irc.sorcery.net, http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
co-author, The XML Specification Guide
forthcoming: The Open Source XML Database Toolkit
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