Re: [xml] xmlcatalog translating DTD PUBLIC identifier as filename in MSYS shell

[John Brown <johnbrown_105 yahoo com>]

Hello LRN,


> >  In a CMD.exe command prompt: 
> C:\Users\John\Downloads\Open_Source>
> >  xmlcatalog c:/mingw/msys/1.0/etc/xm l/catalog "-//OASIS//DTD
> >  DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 
> >  file:///c:/mingw/local/share/xml/docbook-xml-4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
> >
> >
> >  In a MSYS shell:
> >
> >  $ xmlcatalog -v -v  "c:/mingw/msys/1.0/etc/xml/catalog"
> >  "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" Resolve pubID

> > [2] No entry
> >  for PUBLIC -/C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/OASIS/DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2/EN 
> > Note what happens in [2] - the public identifier
> >  is treated as a MSYS filename, so //OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN
> >  becomes /C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/OASIS/DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2/EN


> I'm fixing this by renaming /mingw/bin/xmlcatalog.exe to
> /mingw/bin/mingw32-xmlcatalog.exe and using /usr/bin/xmlcatalog.exe
> instead. Since /usr/bin/xmlcatalog.exe is a MSys application, it does
> not have path mangling problems.

It works,and I can even use '/etc/xml/catalog' as the filename
instead of 'c:/mingw/msys/1.0/etc/xml/catalog'. Thanks.

Regards,
John Brown.