• From: Manos Batsis <manos_lists@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:32:34 +0300

On 06/11/2011 12:59 AM, Mike Sokolov wrote:
> The examples that have been given provide compelling reasons to map URLs
> in XML files to local resources. They don't really explain why XML
> Catalogs is a good way to do that, nor do they contrast it with any
> other approach to the same problem. I'd be interested in that, too,

Portability: The way I see it, it's a somewhat portable way of defining 
resource aliases - at least when compared to others. An app can carry 
those resources and their aliases with it, for example when going to a 
picnic or a staging/production environment.

Cheers,

Manos

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