suffix matching

Which will cause implementors the least heart-burn when it comes to 
retrofitting their implementations? From the user perspective these 
two ideas look equally easy to use.

Lauren

On 13 Dec 2004 Norman Walsh wrote:
> | - in summary we should add it to the spec. Action on Norm to add this 
> | to the spec.
> 
> Ok. How?
> 
>   <systemSuffix suffix="docbook.dtd" uri="full-path-to-docbook.dtd"/>
> 
> 
>   Pro: separate element for separate functionality
>   Con: functionality is similar to rewriteSystem. if we had planned
>        this from the start, we might have called rewriteSystem
>        'systemPrefix'
> 
> or
> 
>   <rewriteSystem systemIdEndString="docbook.dtd"
>                  rewritePrefix="full-path"/>
> 
>   Pro: reuses rewriteSystem for similar functionality.
>   Con: makes rewriteSystem more complex, adds attribute co-constraints
>        (must have one of systemIdStartString/systemIdEndString, but not both)
>        rewritePrefix works slightly differently in the two cases.
> 
> or
> 
>   ...something else...