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- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: "Pierre, Sebastian" <spierre@Rational.Com>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:31:43 -0400
"Pierre, Sebastian" wrote:
> I don't really see what it is useful for, because I remember that when a
> browser encounters a notation, he tries to give it to the program indicated
> by the SYSTEM address associated to the notation, this address can be
> pointed by an FPI.
You have (subtly) misread the XML Recommendation. Clause 4.7 says:
# They [XML processors] may additionally resolve the external identifier
# into the system identifier, file name, or other information needed to
# allow the application to call a processor for data in the notation described.
That is *not* the same as saying that the system identifier of a notation
declaration should be a path to an interpretive program. Indeed, the
XML Rec does not specify the semantics of either the system or the public
identifier of a notation.
In SGML, however, the convention was that the external identifier information
pointed to the *definition* of the notation, either in a machine-processable
form or (more typically) in a natural language such as English. That allowed
someone receiving the document to identify an appropriate processor,
in the worst case by implementing it!
> For example if I have a PNG notation in my XML file, how can I get IE5
> or Mozilla to display it?
There is no standard convention for this, and indeed the use of notations
is probably excessively painful for this purpose: one must declare a
notation, declare an external entity using this notation, declare an
appropriate element with an appropriate attribute of type ENTITY, and
use the element at the appropriate place.
Use XLink instead.
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