parsing spec.dtd & XML spec with nsgmls Re: W3C spec.dtd

[Tony Graham]

At 3 Mar 1999 15:00 +0100, Stefan Mintert wrote:
 > Now I try to parse the XML spec (REC-xml-19980210.xml) and the spec.dtd
 > (copied from the above URL) with nsgmls. I'm using nsgmls 1.3 on SunOS 5.6
 > (Solaris 2). I already parsed xml instances without problems but in this case
 > it doesn't work. Following are the first lines of nsgmls output:
 > 
 > sm at brown(/tmp/sm){590}: /tmp/sm/sp-1.3/nsgmls/nsgmls -E 10 -w xml -s REC-xml-19980210.xml
 > /tmp/sm/sp-1.3/nsgmls/nsgmls:spec.dtd:60:17:W: named character reference
 > /tmp/sm/sp-1.3/nsgmls/nsgmls:spec.dtd:60:19:E: "X2014" is not a function name

Add -c/tmp/sm/sp-1.3/pubtext/xml.soc to the command line so nsgmls
reads the xml.soc catalog that tells it to use the SGML Declaration
for XML, xml.dcl.  That SGML Declaration tells nsgmls what hexadecimal
character references look like.  Without it, things like &x2014; are
being interpreted as per ISO 8879:1986, which isn't doing you or the
parser any good.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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