RE: [xml-dev] Some Problems about Sax

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

They mean the same as they do in XML.

 

SystemId is essentially the URI of a document (or more generally, of an entity). The terminology comes from SGML which predates the web and the concept of URI.

 

PublicId is a "public identifier", another SGML concept. It was an attempt to create a universal system for allocating globally unique names; it never really took off, but some document types do have public identifiers and you can use catalogs to translate them to URIs.

 

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

 

 

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From: james jiang [mailto:jamesjiang07@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 December 2007 07:57
To: xml_dev
Subject: [xml-dev] Some Problems about Sax

Hi,all:

       I'am confused about the concept of SystemId and publicId in sax. Could anyone tell me the difference between them and what they exactly mean. Many thanks!

best regards!

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Yi-Feng Jiang