Re: [klakier@pld.org.pl: Standard libxml-based processing scripts for DocBook?]
/ klakier@pld.org.pl (Rafa³ Kleger-Rudomin) was heard to say:
| That was XML developers who decided that using system IDs in the form
| of URL (URI?) is enough to locate the document.
I think it's fairer to characterize this decision as simply requiring
a system identifier to make the desperate Perl hacker's job
easier. (The fact that system identifiers are URIs is either
irrelevant or entirely reasonable depending on your point of view.)
I think that requiring every parser to have an entity manager was
seen as setting the bar too high.
| FPI is a sgml concept.
Yes, but public identifiers are not.
| It constitutes some artificial mapping between wanted file
| and it's location. XML was designed to be net oriented - why the
| net_domain/file name (which you can quite easily choose now) is worst to
| identify the resource than some artificial string that must also be
| assigned uniqely worldwide?
Simple. Network domains are not persistent. And they aren't names,
they're addresses. I find twisting my head far enough around to see
"http://nwalsh.com/"; as a name and not an address gives me a headache.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | What are the thoughts of the canvas on
http://nwalsh.com/ | which a masterpiece is being created?
| "I am being soiled, brutally treated
| and concealed from view." Thus men
| grumble at their destiny, however
| fair.--Jean Cocteau
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