DOCBOOK-APPS: [Fwd: RE: catalogs support in Saxon]

[camille at mandrakesoft dot com]

hi,

this is the answer I just got from Mickael Kay (Saxon).
What are exactly URIResolver (and EntityResolver)?

Camille.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: catalogs support in Saxon
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:41:52 -0000
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
To: "'camille@mandrakesoft.com'" <camille@mandrakesoft.com>

I don't intend to support SGML-like catalogs in Saxon unless and until
W3C
standardize them for use with XML. I hope that others can interface such
catalogs using the URIResolver (and EntityResolver) mechanism which is
already there in the product.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: camille@mandrakesoft.com [mailto:camille@mandrakesoft.com]
> Sent: 10 January 2001 15:13
> To: Michael.Kay@icl.com
> Subject: catalogs support in Saxon
> 
> 
> Hi Mickael,
> 
> I am the package maintainer for all SGML/XML related stuff at
> MandrakeSoft. 
> We noticed that the Saxon processor does not make use of open catalogs
> which greatly facilitates documents processing:
> http://www.jclark.com/sp/catalog.htm
> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/spec/lsbsgml.html
> 
> Do you plan to make this available soon?
> 
> Thanks for your work, Camille.
>