Re: OMF DTD problems

[Dan Mueth <muet alumni uchicago edu>]

On 29 May 2002, John Fleck wrote:

> Folks -
> I'm not sure of the reason for this, but we've run into a problem when
> adding the dtd to omf files.
> scrollkeeper-preinstall was failing, making packages unbuildable when
> the dtd was added to the omf file.
> I've removed it from workspace-switcher-C.omf, which was causing
> gnome-panel's build to fail. I'm not sure where else this may show up,
> which is why I'm sending this note to the lists.
> I don't know whether it's a catalog problem, or a problem getting the
> dtd from the net, but whatever it is it was breaking the build so I
> think reverting it and leaving dtd's out until we've sorted out the
> problem is the correct approach.
> Cheers,
> John

There was a bug in ScrollKeeper < 0.3.9 in how it addresses the root XML
node which doesn't show up unless you have the DOCTYPE declaration in 
the OMF file.  ScrollKeeper 0.3.9, which was just released, includes the 
fix.

Dan