>  Subject: [xml-dev] How did "public identifier" get its name...
>  
>  
>  ...and what does the "public" indicate?
>  

A public identifier in XML is just a string, it is not required to be
either public or an identifier.

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.

Michael Kay



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