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Norman Walsh writes:
> | The problem is that this kind of infrastructure is barely
> | deployed, and many developers don't even know of its existence.
> | Like many validating parsers, they're just going to punt when
> | they hit a URN SystemLiteral.
>
> True. Alas. Well, the entity resolution technical committee of
> OASIS is working to recast TR9401 in an XML framework which might
> help. But even before then, there's certainly plenty of free
> code[1] around to do the job; it's dead simple in a SAX parser.
Would OASIS really want to create an XML-specific method for
URN-resolution? I think that either (a) URNs have been dead in the
water for a couple of years, but no one has quite had the guts to
write the obit, or, if that's not the case, then (b) URNs need a
general resolution mechanism that's not confined to a tiny area like
XML processing tools.
All the best,
David
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