Re: entities and Nautilus help

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>]

Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu> writes:

> 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)



Thanks a lot for the input. 

I will try to have a look at all this for post-PR2 and will try to put 
what I learn from the pb in a bug report :)

You have done a great job to get the beast working and I wish to thank
you for this.

Mathieu

.
> 
> 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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> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>
> > 

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