On 06/11/2011 12:59 AM, Mike Sokolov wrote:
> The examples that have been given provide compelling reasons to map URLs
> in XML files to local resources. They don't really explain why XML
> Catalogs is a good way to do that, nor do they contrast it with any
> other approach to the same problem. I'd be interested in that, too,
Portability: The way I see it, it's a somewhat portable way of defining
resource aliases - at least when compared to others. An app can carry
those resources and their aliases with it, for example when going to a
picnic or a staging/production environment.
Cheers,
Manos