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Ummm.... of which type: a name (URN) or as a network named location (URL)?
The PUBLIC identifier, as you know, can have interesting
information in it that has nothing to do with dereferencing
a representation from a resource over a network protocol.
Are you saying the URI in the PUBLIC id would point to a document
for getting that information?
That would also mean that nothing can be done with XML unless
it is done "on the web". PUBLIC IDs are a way to hook up
to other systems. You would be legislating away that right.
You know all of that, so this must be a lead in to the
'is the web the universe or just a network of documents
and other ports of call' thread.
len
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:
> The problem of the Universal Identifier concept is that
> it assumes the web is the universe and vice versa. It
> builds unreliability into the system. Definitions that
> include the term 'universal information space' are silly.
IMHO it would have been better to decree that in XML the public id,
rather than the system id, must be a URI.
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