location there and if the tool is XML Catalog aware it will resolve that
to a local copy.
Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com
B Tommie Usdin wrote:
> One of the great strengths of XML as she is practiced is the
> use of indirection. Indirection allows us to point to things
> (e.g., entity sets, partial documents, graphics, stylesheets)
> independent of their physical locations. We name things IN the
> less editable location (the document, the DTD, the XSD, ...) and
> SOMEPLACE ELSE we associate the name with a file location.
>
> Even in it's simplest form this indirection allows me to send a
> real XML document (at least in my world few real XML documents
> exist in only one file) to someone who will be able to read and
> use it without editing the document. They may have to edit the
> catalog file, but the document is protected.
>
> I could go on and on about the power of indirection in XML (and I
> think I did at some conference or other not too long ago), but I'll
> refrain here. My point is that indirection is basic to the practice
> of XML (and to SGML, for that matter).
>
> Any standard, specification, or agreement that could move physical
> pointers out of documents but that puts them into the document
> instead is parasitic. It saps one of the key strengths of good
> XML practice. It encourages arbitrary editing of documents and
> reduces the reliability of XML documents.
>
> I don't know how you feel about it, but I want to strictly control
> which applications, and which people, are allowed to change my
> documents. Many more tools, and people, are allowed to read
> documents than are allowed to change them. A PI such as we are
> talking about would require that people, without guidance and
> protection of a schema-aware tool, would be editing raw files
> in order to change the PI. And once they were in there, with
> write permission, who knows what else they would do.
>
> -- Tommie
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