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> Subject: How did "public identifier" get its name... > > > ...and what does the "public" indicate? > A public identifier in XML is just a string, it is not required to be either public or an identifier. I think the name was chosen because the authors of the spec had it in mind that people would use them to hold SGML public identifiers, which are a previous and only partially successful attempt at doing URIs, i.e. globally unique names for resources. Michael Kay
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