Re: [xml2rfc] rfc2629-xhtml.ent warning

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

On 5/16/23 10:09, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 16.05.2023 15:55, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> ...
>> OK, I'll bite.  I am just doing this cookbook kind of, but always work
>> from existing xml files rather than go back for templates.
>>
>> What are "named character entities"
>
> See <https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-entity-decl>.
> Things like "&nbsp;" (instead of "&#160;").
>
> If you don't have any of these: just remove them. If you have some, and
> want to declare them locally: see
> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7749.html#special.unicode.code.points>. 
>
>
> Note that XML has a few hardwired named entities that do not need to be
> declared, such as "&amp;" or "&lt;".

I have used &lt and &rt in some drafts but not this one.  I will have to 
check out the docs Jay points to.

>
>>> RelaxNG doesn't help with these at all.
>>>
>>> The warning message from xml2rfc is completely misleading, as it
>>> conflates entity declarations with validation.
>>
>> It is new.  Wait, I just migrated to this system, so this is the first
>> use of xml2rfc here.  All prior builds was on my old F35 system.
>>
>> So this message MAY have something to do here.  I just checked and my
>> old system is on xml2rfc 3.11.1.
>
> I believe the message has been around since the version was bumped up to
> 3.x.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>