Don Day wrote:
> Are catalog files (both text and OASIS XML forms) necessarily part of
> the DTD/Schema submission for the proposed Committee Draft? If so,
> I'll add them to the "dtd/schema" package after we update the public
> identifiers. I do not think they are normative, but I could be
> convinced to include them. I think they tend to be
> application-specific and merely encode information that is already in
> the DTDs. However, it is tremendously useful for them to be present in
> a distribution so that users can configure their local lookups.
>
Since the DITA DTDs are themselves using public IDs (external parameter
entities), I think it makes sense to provide catalogs for the lookups.
Chris
