Re: [xml-dev] Understanding XML catalogs: what they are, why theyare used, and where they are used

As it happens, it seems my .NET implementation of XML Catalogs is  
available for anyone who is interested (having just checked):

http://londata.svnrepository.com/xmlcatalog.net/trac.cgi/

Cheers, Tony.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:22:21 +0100, Anthony B. Coates (XML-Dev)  
<> wrote:

> Both Norm's Java implementation and my .NET implementation (which may  
> have fallen off the net) implement 1.1 (although my .NET version skips  
> some DTD support that I didn't think .NET users were likely to want).
>
> Cheers, Tony.
>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:59:01 +0100, Piotr Bański <> wrote:
>
>> David Carlisle <> wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/07/2010 12:54, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>>> > can they be used with<xsl:include>  elements?
>>>
>>> No
>>>
>>> They are mainly (perhaps only) applicable to specifying the locations  
>>> of
>>> dtd and external parsed entities, that is the SYSTEM and PUBLIC
>>> identifiers defined in the grammar of XML.
>>
>> XML Catalogs 1(.1) appears to address this by introducing "URI  
>> entries"[1]. I'm not sure if there is a freely available tool that  
>> implements version 1.1 of the spec[2]. I'd love to know of one that  
>> does.
>>
>> [1]:  
>> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/14809/xml-catalogs.html#s.uri.ent
>>
>> [2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304818
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>   Piotr
>>
>>
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