Re: [xml2rfc] Why development version dislikes <!ENTITY RFC2119 PUBLIC ...

[Elwyn Davies <[e-mail]>]

Yes. I checked that..

/E
Brian Rosen wrote:
> Are your ENTITYs in DOCTYPE:
> <!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM "rfc2629.dtd" [
>
> <!ENTITY RFC2119 PUBLIC ''
>  'http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml'>
>
> ]>
>
> That is what Brian Carpenter found was needed.
>
> Brian
>
> On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:24 AM, 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>     
>>> On 2011-07-26 16:14, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hello Brian,
>>>>
>>>> On 2011/07/26 11:39, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> It appears that the new code requires ENTITY definitions
>>>>> to be embedded within the DOCTYPE declaration. This has never been
>>>>> the case before. Thus:
>>>>>
>>>>> <!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM "rfc2629.dtd" [
>>>>>
>>>>> <!ENTITY RFC2119 PUBLIC ''
>>>>>   'http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml'>
>>>>>
>>>>> ]>
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect a lot of existing source files would be invalidated by this
>>>>> requirement.
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>> Sorry, but that would actually be a good thing.     
>>>>         
>>> Yes, if it is carefully announced and introduced at a specific date.
>>> I have no trouble with fixing my source files, but I need to be told.
>>> (The diagnostic was quite helpful in that it pointed to exactly
>>> the line that was causing the problem, but I could only isolate the
>>> problem by a line-by-line comparison with Elwyn's future-proof
>>> tutorial example. That's not satisfactory for the entire user
>>> population.)
>>>
>>>    Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Free-standing ENTITY
>>>> declarations are not allowed by XML. Please see:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-doctypedecl
>>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-EntityDecl
>>>>
>>>> This slipped through the cracks up to now because the Tcl implementation
>>>> was very ad-hoc. The new implementation uses a parser library, I guess
>>>> (would be crazy if it didn't).
>>>>
>>>> Of all things, we don't want to give the impression that the IETF is
>>>> calling something XML that isn't.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,    Martin.
>>>>
>>>>    
>>>>         
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