RE: How could RDDL be distributed ?

[Leigh Dodds <ldodds@ingenta.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Sabin [mailto:MSabin@interx.com]
> Sent: 16 January 2001 15:04
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: How could RDDL be distributed ?
> 
> 
> Eric van der Vlist wrote,
> > I am not familiar with such URI resolution servers, and I 
> > wonder what it means when/if I want to process a document on my 
> > disconnected laptop computer (a common problem with DTD system 
> > IDs).
> 
> To do the job you'd need some mechanism for ensuring that all
> the DTDs were cached locally before pulling out the wire. It'd
> be nice if that local caching mechanism got along well with a
> mechanism for connected distribution and replication.

And I'd argue that 'getting along well' meant outputting a xmlcat.

I can see the advantage in automating the maintenance of managing 
a local cache (read 'catalog'). But thats a separate issue to xmlcat 
and RDDL.

Cheers,

L.