XML Catalogs (was RE: XML Public Indentifier)

[Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@allegis.com>]

We don't use SGML, here; just XML. But I definitely see the need, and I'm
specing support for this right now for our next generation integration
toolset. We will be supporting it. I'm very glad to see this spec, and am
quite pleased with its simplicity.

I hope the tool vendors will support it soon, as well. I'm guessing that
SoftQuad and Arbortext will be supporting it for obvious reasons. Anyone
know if Altova plans on supporting it with XML Spy?

Now if we can get tool support for RDDL as well as XML Catalog... that would
make me happy. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauren Wood [mailto:lauren@softquad.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:31 AM
> To: Betty L. Harvey
> Cc: Rob Lugt; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: XML Public Indentifier
> 
> 
> We only finished the spec last month! Can you give us (and 
> the other software 
> vendors) at least some time to support it? Actually, this 
> thread is also helping 
> to tell people that the specification exists, so hopefully 
> more people will think 
> about using it. And yes, the first supporters are likely to 
> be SGML people who see 
> the need, but I believe that others will also see the need 
> eventually and be glad 
> a specification is there.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Lauren
> 
> Betty L. Harvey wrote:
> > Sorry, I meant XML and namespaces.  Although XML and catalogs
> > work, I am not familiar with any software (except software
> > vendors who started in SGML) that support XML catalogs.  Public
> > identifiers and XML seem to be forgotten by XML software
> > vendors.
> > 
> > Betty