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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: I'm a little bit confused...

From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
To: Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 08:44:37 -0400

/ Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk> was heard to say:
| At 11:01 30/08/2002, Giuseppe Greco wrote:
|>Hi Bob,
|>
|>I have 3 questions about catalogs:
|>
|>1. When should I use PUBLIC identifiers
|>   respectively SYSTEM identifiers?
|
| If you are always connected to the internet, its OK
| (but slower) to get them from the net.
|
| If not, then use public identifiers and a catalog

You can (and I always do :-) use a catalog for both public *and*
system identifiers.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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