Re: xmllint and —

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

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

No stupid questions. I spent ages scratching my head about this.

You need to add --valid to the xmllint command line, which forces it to load
the dtd.

Cheers,

John