Re: patch to XML docbook output

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Peter Williams wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 06:18, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > 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.
> >
> >    
>
> They have a doctype header that pointed to docbook xml 4.1.2... but
> docbook isn't what defines &percent; and friends, right? My patch makes
> it so that the doctype headers look like this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Docbook XML V4.1.2//EN" 
>                  
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"; [
>  <!ENTITY hash "&#x23;">
>  <!ENTITY percent "&#x25;">
> ]>
>
> I was thinking this was the correct way to address Matthias' comments
> about needing to support &percent; and &hash;.
>  
Sorry, didn't check these.  In the set of ISO entities that both the 
SGML and XML DocBook 4.1 DTDs define, the correct entities for these two 
are &percnt; (no second e) and &num;

James.

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