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Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 26 July 2011 18:01 UTC

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On 2011-07-26 17:24, Elwyn Davies wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Should have said draft is
> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-routing-reqs-11.xml
>
> I just tried out an old draft that I know contains some unusual features.
>
> Unfortunately it didn't get as far as checking on these.
>
> I get a lot of error messages related to entity references:
> My imported references are in the form
>
> *<!ENTITY* RFC3471 SYSTEM
> "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3471.xml"*>
>
> The error messages are of the form:
> *ERROR: Unable to validate the XML document: INPUT
> Line 1406: IDREF attribute target references an unknown ID "RFC3471"
>
> The problem is doubtless that there are a number of different forms for
> these ENTITY definitions!
>
> Regards,
> Elwyn

That may be an actual bug; my validators do not see any (serious) 
problems with that source file.

Best regards, Julian

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