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RE: RE: XML catalog resolution problems
- From: Jeanson Mauritz <mauritz dot jeanson at aerotechtelub dot se>
- To: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>, Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:27:49 +0100
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: XML catalog resolution problems
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@caldera.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 5:46 PM
> To: Jeanson Mauritz; Norman Walsh
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: XML catalog resolution problems
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:26:07AM +0100, Jeanson Mauritz wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:07 PM
> > > To: Jeanson Mauritz
> > > Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> > > Subject: Re: XML catalog resolution problems
> > >
> > >
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> > > / Jeanson Mauritz <mauritz.jeanson@aerotechtelub.se> was
> heard to say:
> > > | B. Resolution of stylesheet locations: works only if I
> > > | 1. use Saxon's -u flag,
> > >
> > > I'm offline, and I don't recall what "-u" means...
> >
> >
> > According to the Saxon documentation: "Indicates that the
> names of the
> > source document and the style document are URLs; otherwise
> they are taken
> > as filenames, unless they start with "http:" or "file:", in
> which case
> > they are taken as URLs".
> >
> >
> > > | 2. use <uri> instead of <system> in the catalog file,
> > >
> > > Right. Stylesheet locations *are* general URIs, they aren't system
> > > identifiers.
> >
> > Does that mean that <system> shouldn't be used for stylesheets in a
> > catalog file?
> >
> > In Bob Stayton's catalog tutorial, this catalog has a
> <system> entry:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE catalog
> > PUBLIC "-//OASIS/DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
> >
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
> >
> > <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
> > <system
> > systemId="docbook.xsl"
> > uri="/usr/lib/xml/docbook-xsl-1.50/html/docbook.xsl"/>
> > </catalog>
> >
> > Is this not correct?
>
> In rereading the XML Catalog specification, I think my
> stylesheet examples are not correct. Stylesheet references
> are URIs, not system identifiers. I think I need to redo
> the catalog chapter. Sorry if I created confusion.
When trying xsltproc, I found that it accepts and resolves <system>
entries for stylesheets in catalog files. As I take it, this is not
the correct behaviour.
/Mauritz