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Dumb questions about PUBLIC IDs
- From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@mediaone.net>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 10:34:51 -0400
I'm curious. I don't see it in the XML spec, but are PUBLIC IDs really supposed to be in the form "-//Foo//Bar//Baz". Is this an ISO format? If so, where is it defined?
The grammatical production "PubidLiteral" and its rules for space compression seem to encompass either a URI, the format above, and just about anything else you'd like to put in there.
Tool survey: IE5.5 won't display a file unless the PUBLIC ID is in the format above. XML Spy doesn't care. Expat doesn't care. Xerces doesn't care.
tia,
Charles Reitzel
take it easy,
Charles Reitzel