Re: DOCBOOK: Troubles with dbcentx.mod

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr> was heard to say:
|   Found that Red Hat 7.1 ships a docbook XML package with the 4.1.2
| Dtds, this looks great so I try it ... and my parser chokes on it.
[...]
|   Looking at the file it says:
| 
| ---------------------
| <!-- DocBook XML character entities module V4.1 ........................... -->
| [...]
| $Id: dbcentx.mod,v 1.7 2000/06/19 14:40:17 nwalsh Exp $

That's not right. The DocBook XML 4.1.2 distribution from OASIS reads

<!-- ...................................................................... -->
<!-- DocBook XML character entities module V4.1.2 ........................... -->
[...]
     $Id: dbcentx.mod,v 1.4 2000/09/19 20:44:29 ndw Exp $

It looks like a package build error to me. The V4.1 makes me think
that you've got the SGML version in your XML distribution, but the
SGML version is named "dbcent.mod" (no "x") so I can't explain it.

|   But the XML spec only allows PUBLIC ids if followed by a SYSTEM one:

Indeed it does :-)

|   So the question is:
|     - did Red Hat shipped a wrong (or old/buggy) version ?

Yes. I think so.

|     - is this file actually need to be fixed in the DocBook XML distrib ?

No.

|     - or did I missed something ?

No. I don't think so.


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | So, are you working on finding
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | that bug now, or are you leaving
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | it until later? Yes.