At 14:31 2000 11 22 -0800, Terry Allen wrote:
>Paul wrote:
>| At 16:11 2000 11 21 -0800, Terry Allen wrote:
>| >Do James's tools really fetch DTDs via HTTP given a URL
>| >such as
>| >
>| > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/
>|
>| Um, the answer is either "no" or "not a well-formed question."
>| What you get back via HTTP given a URL depends on the server,
>| not the UA, so one can't really answer the question. But the
>| answer is probably no--but that's not the right question. The
>
>It does depend on the server, but in Norm's example there were
>multiple entities at the URL ending in /, so I could save the
In the source document, but not in the right hand sides of the
relevant catalog entries.
>question by asking whether James's tools really fetch DTDs,
>ENTITYs, etc., all from the same URL ending in /. To that
>I think we agree the answer is "no".
Correct, they don't, but with the catalog in there, that's
no longer the question.
>| question should be:
>|
>| Does a TR9401:1997-compliant tool really fetch the DTD when
>| the instance says:
>| <!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/">
>| and the catalog includes:
>| SYSTEM "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/"
>| "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" ?
>|
>| And the answer to the above is yes.
>
>I agree, and have even done it (cool!) but that wasn't Norm's example.
Well, that's how I read his example in
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/entity-resolution/200011/msg00047.html
in the context of my message to which he was responding. That is, I
understood his message at the above quoted URL to be showing a source
document for which a catalog analogous to that in my example was
assumed--one that mapped the various "lefthand sides" found in the
source document into *different* right hand sides.
Perhaps Norm can clarify.
paul
