Re: entities and Nautilus help

[Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu> writes:
> 
> > Yes - this is a _KNOWN_ bug mathieu :) The problem is, we are still using
> > DocBook SGML. I talked with Daniel Veillard about entities in several email's.
> > He told me they are broken too. I know they are broken. But I had to make it
> 
> You know they are broken but you do not know why or how.

I do not have a concrete knowldge of why they are broken. You are 
correct. I also didn't have time to research the problem, because I was 
at a stage that I wanted to get things working (and from my talks with 
DV, I understood it was a futile effort to try and get things working. DV 
told me "trust me, it will not work the way you are working". and I trust 
his judgement).

> What I want to be able to say if someone asks me why it is broken is to point 
> them at the architectural problem in the code, not tell them: "it is broken".
> 
> I understand your reasons for doing what you do but I want to know exactly what
> the problem is. 

I /think/ part of the problem is the initial DocBook declaration
(first line of the doc). It is not valid XML (see the archives for a more 
detailed discussion on it).

Regards,
Ali

> Mathieu
> 
> > 'work' for now. 
> > 
> > Part of the reason is SGML syntax is /different/ than XML (esp. the first line
> > in the docs).
> > 
> > Daniel wanted me to do several things, switch to the DOM based parser (instead
> > of SAX), and use libxml 2.x - I can't switch to DOM because we use SGML, and I
> > can't switch to libxml 2.x because we are locked into libxml 1.x for Nautilus
> > 1.0 and GNOME 1.4
> > 
> > My hands are tied with this. I am very open to suggestions.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ali
> > 
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> 
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> Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>
>