Re: semantics of delegating system ids [was: Proposal for XML syntaxfor catalogs]

/ Paul Grosso <> was heard to say:
| >Oh, barf. You're right. Hmm. I only want this for system or public
| >identifiers, so may be we can do this:
| >
| >  <delegate systemIdPrefix="xxx" publicIdPrefix="yyy" catalog="zzz"/>
| 
| Would this be completely semantically equivalent to
|   <delegateSystem prefix="xxx" catalog="zzz"/>
|   <delegatePublic prefix="yyy" catalog="zzz"/>

Yes, I think so.

| (assuming the obvious semantics of those two elements)?  If so, I
| think I can live with that syntax--provided we can figure out the
| semantics of either syntax, which is what the rest of this message
| is about.

And I'll reply to that when I have a chance to think about it more
carefully...

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                                          norm

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