Re: xmllint and —

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:14:40AM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope that this is not a stupid question:
> 
> I've been using xmllint to check the XML of the document I'm working on.
> There's only one error left to figure out.  xmllint doesn't seem to like
> —
> 
> daniel]$ xmllint --noout gdict.xml
> gdict.xml:269: error: Entity 'mdash' not defined
>       <guimenuitem>Manual</guimenuitem> &mdash; shows this manual.

  Assuming you use DocBook you *really* should use
    xmllint --valid --noout gdict.xml

 it will then load the DTD. It doesn't do it by default, currently you
are just testing "well formedness" of the file, not that it conforms to
DocBook.

> 
> It seems that xmllint is expecting an ENTITY tag for mdash (just like
> version).  Interestingly, xmllint doesn't have any problem with &lt; and
> &gt;

  If you use DocBook mdash is defined as part of the DTD so this problem
will disapear when run in validating mode.
  The lt, gt, quot, and amp entities are predefined and don't need to be
declared in the DTD.

> I hope I'm not anoying anyone with stupid questions.  Please remember that
> I'm new here :)

  No problem, it's just an XML question.

Daniel

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