xml-dev - identifying DTDs, schemas

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

This is a 'best practices' question.

Say I'm developing XML standards for widespread use across the Internet, in
systems I don't control.

Would it make sense for me to:

1) Deprecate the use of public identifiers (don't provide them, don't
recommend their use)

2) Recommend the use of URNs as SystemLiterals in the SYSTEM part of the
DOCTYPE declaration, in addition to URNs for namespaces, XML and RDF schema
identifiers, without comment on whether these resources make Infoset
contributions.

3) Create a registry listing those URNs.

If your answer is yes, you'll like:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-iana-xmlns-registry-00.txt

If your answer is no, what would you suggest?

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
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