RE: Problem with ignoring system ID of Doctype

[Paul Terray <terray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:09 14/09/00 -0500, you wrote:
> And all this is currently mostly moot with respect to XML, since the
> XML spec did not define a catalog (unfortunately, in my opinion).  And
> since the system id is required, almost all XML processors I know of
> use it and general ignore the public id.

That's what I have seen till now. And this is a major pain that many tools 
(usually not parsers, mostly editors) don't know well about back relative 
entity inclusion, like "../mydir/myent.ent"  (Adept, Stylus being two of 
them). This means I cannot use the same dtd with Adept (used as a PDF 
producer) and Omnimark, XSLT (that can use the same, yeah !).


> However, Java classes that implement catalogs for XML have been put
> into the public domain, and I'm hopeful that more and more XML
> processors out there will use them (or the equivalent) to add catalog
> support for XML.  Norm's article [2] for both a good description of
> the issues and for a pointer to some Java classes that implement both
> the TR9401:1997 catalogs and XML Catalogs [3].

I do agree this is useful, but the catalog is not standard yet, and my 
point here is to unify the DTDs among the tools I use.

> paul

Thank you for your help.

Paul, also (what about a XML Paul club :-)

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