> Ok, so I'm searching the 300,000 acronyms in my head and FPI is not popping up
> :-) Did I miss class that day? What does FPI stand for?
Formal Public Identifiers. A convention for defining public identifiers.
> Then the parser could see, even if a DTD came in from different sources via
> different URIs, that in effect they were the exact same version and that
> subsequent instances of the DTD could be just ignored and the current content
> used?
Namespace names don't have to be dereferenceable:
"http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/labor_yutz" is a perfectly good namespace name,
even though there's nothing there (you'll get an error if you
try to dereference it), because I assigned it and the namespace
names beginning http://www.ccil.org/~cowan" belong to me.
In particular, there is no reason why the referent of the namespace
name should be a DTD.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)