/ Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I want it all. Everything. Now.
You can't have everything, where would you put it? | Despite the dopey story line, I'm quite serious. This issue is bound | to arise again and again in different settings. Bleh. I see your point. Well, I don't have a good answer now, and I may never have a good answer for XT, but if you can get Norma to switch to a recent Xalan or Saxon (or any other processor that supports the jaxp URIResolver), she'll be able to use a catalog to redirect <xsl:import href="http://.../html/docbook.xsl"/> to version 1.24. | Then: | | the user's $HOME/.catalog could tell the parser to look at whatever | version the user wanted it to point to. | | Cool, eh? Yes, that's basically my plan. After I get the catalog stuff distributed, I'll probably change all my dorky relative system identifiers to something reasonably global and use a catalog to do the right thing. (Whether or not I decide to be somewhat mean and use URNs for my system identifiers is an open question. But I very much doubt I will, despite a certain nasty temptation.) | But hey, I'm no expert. For all I know, what I'm asking for could be | | (a.) already in the works Yes. | (b.) ridiculous, unseemly Nope. | (c.) already solved, (my ignorance is the problem) Not really. | (d.) profound, insightful, visionary | | I hope it's (d.), but I doubt it. Close enough. It's certainly a significant, real problem that needs to be solved. (I encourage everyone to send mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list asking why the xsl:import and xsl:include elements don't support both a 'publicid' and 'href' attributes :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Men are more like the times they http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | live in than they are like their Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | fathers.--Ali Ibn-abi-talib
