Re: xmllint and —

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 22:14, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope that this is not a stupid question:

There's no such thing.  :-)

> 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;

Try adding the --valid flag to xmllint.  Right now, it's just checking
for well-formededness (ack, is that a word?!?  my spell checker wants to
replace it with fatheadedness, hehe).  The --valid flag will tell it to
check your document against the DTD specified in the doctype
declaration.  
	Greg

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