/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rafa³ Kleger-Rudomin) was heard to say: | That was XML developers who decided that using system IDs in the form | of URL (URI?) is enough to locate the document.
I think it's fairer to characterize this decision as simply requiring a system identifier to make the desperate Perl hacker's job easier. (The fact that system identifiers are URIs is either irrelevant or entirely reasonable depending on your point of view.) I think that requiring every parser to have an entity manager was seen as setting the bar too high. | FPI is a sgml concept. Yes, but public identifiers are not. | It constitutes some artificial mapping between wanted file | and it's location. XML was designed to be net oriented - why the | net_domain/file name (which you can quite easily choose now) is worst to | identify the resource than some artificial string that must also be | assigned uniqely worldwide? Simple. Network domains are not persistent. And they aren't names, they're addresses. I find twisting my head far enough around to see "http://nwalsh.com/"; as a name and not an address gives me a headache. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | What are the thoughts of the canvas on http://nwalsh.com/ | which a masterpiece is being created? | "I am being soiled, brutally treated | and concealed from view." Thus men | grumble at their destiny, however | fair.--Jean Cocteau
