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Section 3.3.2 says: "If a document is to be referred to rather than embedded, a reference to it MUST placed in the locator child of the corresponding document element. SML-IF specifies one way such references may be constructed, the documentURI element, however any representation on which the producer and consumer agree may be used. [Ed. note: the previous statement is not very portable!]" Note the "Ed. note". SML-IF needs to answer whether portable behavior is desired/required. Also note that "be" is missing between "MUST" and "placed in".
Michael to bring a proposal.
Given that a consumer is not required to resolve the locator element (i.e. attempt to retrieve the doc referenced by locator, a portable interprtation of locator does not appear to be imortant for the SML IF spec. Recommend resolving this as WON'T FIX
This is now in section "5.2.2 Referenced Documents". I agree with the recommendation in comment# 2.
I don't see a 5.2.2, or a "referenced documents" heading, in either editor's copy (just searched both). It appears to be in 3.2 now.
This section is still 5.2.2. This bug overlaps with bug #5248 (sigh!) and the section title is now to 5.2.2 Referenced Documents.
*** Bug 9450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***