/ Leland David <> was heard to say:
| I agree with this suggestion. However, does that mean something other than
| the way that SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifiers are mentioned in
| "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"?
There is no DOCTYPE declaration associated with XML Schemas. So there's
no identifying PUBLIC or SYSTEM keyword.
The equivalent, such as it is, to a DOCTYPE declaration in the XML
Schema world is the xsi:schemaLocation hint:
<article xmlns='http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlschema/4.1.2'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance'
xsi:schemaLocation='
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlschema/4.1.2
docbook.xsd'>
In this case, the hint suggests that the document located at the
relative URI 'docbook.xsd' might be the XML Schema for the namespace
named 'http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlschema/4.1.2'.
Paul suggested (and then retracted) an extension to the xsi:schemaLocation
hint that would have allowed public identifiers:
xsi:schemaLocation='
"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML Schema V4.1.2.2//EN"
docbook.xsd
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlschema/4.1.2
docbook.xsd'>
I was concerned that the public and system identifiers could not be
disambiguated in that string, but Paul's intent (IIUC) was that a
quoted string was a public identifier and an unquoted one was a system
identifier.
Be seeing you,
norm
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