RE: [docbook] Adding a new element to docbook

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Jeff Beal <>
Date
2003-08-22T17:15:00+00:00
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RE: [docbook] Adding a new element to docbook
> > <!ENTITY % DocBookDTD PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN">
> > %DocBookDTD;
> 
> This PUBLIC identifier is for the SGML version of the
> DocBook DTD.  Since you are using XML, you need
> to use:
> 
> "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
> 

One more thing: XML *requires* a system identifier.  So, this line needs to
be
<!ENTITY % DocBookDTD PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">

You can also use a local URI if you haven't configured a catalog yet.

(This is where the error message is coming from.  The parser just sees that
the character immediately following the public identifier is not
white-space, so spits out this message.  It would be nice if the message
were "missing system identifier" instead.)

Jeff Beal