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Ummm.... of which type: a name (URN) or as a network named location (URL)? 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. You know all of that, so this must be a lead in to the 'is the web the universe or just a network of documents and other ports of call' thread. len From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit: > The problem of the Universal Identifier concept is that > it assumes the web is the universe and vice versa. It > builds unreliability into the system. Definitions that > include the term 'universal information space' are silly. IMHO it would have been better to decree that in XML the public id, rather than the system id, must be a URI.
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