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Subject: Re: [discuss] Question about DTD URI in DocBook XML documents?
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Date: 4 Mar 2006 16:54:26 -0000
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> The sample HOWTO at:
>
>    http://tldp.org/authors/template/Sample-HOWTO.xml
>
> shows this DOCTYPE element:
>
>    <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
>         "http://docbook.org/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
>
> I was chatting with the folks in the #docbook channel on freenode, and
> they said that the URI of the DTD above should instead be:
>
>    http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd

We had problems with contacting that site in conjunction with
the publishing process and hence went to the more reliable docbook.org.

> which is some kind of "official" location for the DTD.  Is there
> anything wrong with using the OASIS URI instead of the docbook.org URI
> in HOWTOs?

as long as it's the same version of DTD, and the site is
reliable, then you should ok.

Greg






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