Re: patch to XML docbook output

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Peter Williams wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:06, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > On second thought, I could probably didn't need to get rid of the   
> > entities.  I only made that change because xsltproc was complaining, and 
> > I read your earlier post about the entity.  A better solution would have 
> > been to add a correct <!DOCTYPE> header to each of the document 
> > fragments, which allows us to use any entity valid in docbook markup 
> > (because the doctype is missing, only the standard XML entities are valid).
> >
> > Since the <!DOCTYPE> line is stripped when performing an xinclude, we 
> > still end up with a valid document after the xinclude processing.  I 
> > will include them in the next version of my patch.
> >
> >    
>
> I've been experimenting with getting &percent; et al working and from
> what I can tell XInclude can't handle entities properly yet -- if I
> define &percent; at the top of foo-docs.sgml, it still isn't defined in
> xml/foo-topic.xml.
>
> It does work to stuff the entity definitions in xml/*.xml, but that
> seems a bit unpleasant. Here's a patch (combined with jamesh's) that
> does that. So much faster than jade...
As I said in a previous mail, you need to put a correct DOCTYPE header 
at the top of the xinclude'd documents.  With a correct doctype, it 
works for me (and my latest patches do put a correct doctype when 
generating XML docbook output).  If this doesn't work for you, it would 
be good to find out why.

James.

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