wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>>> When you say URI, do you mean URLs or URNs that use the OASIS URN
>>> namespace <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3121.txt>?
>>
>> For references to resources (external parameter entities, schemas,
>> etc.) I mean URLs that can be resolved using existing,
>> widely-available Web infrastructure.*
>
> And we just instruct people to use catalog processing (as otherwise
> their XML parser will fetch the DTD files from oasis-open.org site
> every time they parse a DITA document)? If we used URNs for resources
> too, we'd force people to use catalog resolving, so maybe it'd be
> better to use URLs and make the resources retrievable from that URL.
> (It wouldn't take long for people to start using local copies when
> they notice that DTD retrieval is a bottle neck.)
Yes, that is my analysis: don't force people to have to use catalogs for
resources.
Cheers,
E.
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