Re: [xml] Unknown entities warning vs error

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:20:32PM +0100, bvh wrote:
> Yesterday I learned that the parser emits a warning about undefined entities.
> However, with 2.5.11 I get a hard error. Has this changed from recent releases?
> How can I still ignore these warnings/errors with 2.5.11? (upgrading to 2.6.xx
> is unfortunatly not an option)
>
> For example this is what I get :
>
> $ xmllint --nowarning  Showcase/Showcase.xml
> Showcase/Showcase.xml:104: error: Entity 'ccedil' not defined
>         <title>Something spooky with &amp; and &ccedil;</title>

  This is an error and not a warning depending on a number of things,
including whether the DTD is loaded, if the document is defined as
standalone, etc ...
  This behaviour is defined by the XML spec, I strongly suggest you read it.

Daniel

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