RE: [xml-dev] How did "public identifier" get its name...

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RE: [xml-dev] How did "public identifier" get its name...
 (Michael Kay) writes:
>I think the name was chosen because the authors of the spec had it in
>mind that people would use them to hold SGML public identifiers, which
>are a previous and only partially successful attempt at doing URIs,
>i.e. globally unique names for resources.

Heh.  As "globally unique names for resources" go, it's probably wise to
count URIs as an "only partially successful attempt."  I'm not if that's
a failure of URIs specifically or the nature of the project, though.



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