If we provide the catalog, do we still
need to document the identifiers in the spec, or does the catalog just
become part of the spec? IE, can the spec document proper simply refer
to the catalog as one of the accompanying documents, without repeating
its contents?
Michael Priestley
Dept PRG IBM Canada phone: 416-915-8262
Toronto Information Development
Christopher Wong <>
01/24/2005 11:46 AM
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Don Day <>
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Re: [dita] Catalog files
as part of the submission?
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
