resolving w3c XHTML entities?

[Mark Lundquist <ml...@wrinkledog.com>]

I'm trying to use

	WEB-INF/entities/w3c/xhtml-special.ent
	WEB-INF/entities/w3c/xhtml-lat1.ent

My doctype looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet
[
  <!ENTITY % HTMLSpecial PUBLIC
    "-//W3C//ENTITIES Special for XHTML//EN"
    "xhtml-special.ent">
  %ISOnum;
  <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC
    "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN"
    "xhtml-lat1.ent">
  %ISOpub;
]>

The entities aren't getting picked up.  I also tried (first) with e.g. 
"w3c/xhtml-special.ent", and that didn't work either.

I must confess that I've never really understood entity catalogs and 
this stuff in the DTDs at all!  I've read explanations of it and they 
all seem to just bounce right off of my brain for some reason.  It 
can't be that complicated, there just must be some impedance mismatch 
between the explanations and my brain.  So anyway... this stuff is all 
voodoo to me, and I've tried the voodoo that I thought would work and 
it didn't :-/  Any ideas? :-)

Thx!
—ml—

Re: resolving w3c XHTML entities?

[Geert Josten <Ge...@daidalos.nl>]

Hi Mark,

In cocoon.xconf you will find a <entity-resolver> element which contains a parameter pointing to a 
catalog. Make sure that this catalog refers to your entity files, using the public identifiers you 
are using yourself. Note that you can direct to other catalog files with the CATALOG keyword.

If the entity-resolver can't handle the public id, it needs to find the system id's, but these 
depent on the context in which the file is parsed. Most likely, "xhtml-special.ent" is interpreted 
as path-of-sitemap/xhtml-special.ent. That will not work. You can fix this, by adding pipeline 
matches that can provide the resolver with the needed files, but on the location it is looking for.

Might be useful to add such pipelines anyhow. Serializing XML with doctypes will make IE complain it 
cannot find the dtd or entity files when the doctype or local declaration subset doesn't use fully 
qualified http addresses...

HTH,
Geert

Mark Lundquist wrote:

> I'm trying to use
> 
> WEB-INF/entities/w3c/xhtml-special.ent
> WEB-INF/entities/w3c/xhtml-lat1.ent
> 
> My doctype looks like this:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet
> [
> <!ENTITY % HTMLSpecial PUBLIC
> "-//W3C//ENTITIES Special for XHTML//EN"
> "xhtml-special.ent">
> %ISOnum;
> <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC
> "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN"
> "xhtml-lat1.ent">
> %ISOpub;
> ]>
> 
> The entities aren't getting picked up. I also tried (first) with e.g. 
> "w3c/xhtml-special.ent", and that didn't work either.
> 
> I must confess that I've never really understood entity catalogs and 
> this stuff in the DTDs at all! I've read explanations of it and they all 
> seem to just bounce right off of my brain for some reason. It can't be 
> that complicated, there just must be some impedance mismatch between the 
> explanations and my brain. So anyway... this stuff is all voodoo to me, 
> and I've tried the voodoo that I thought would work and it didn't :-/ 
> Any ideas? :-)
> 
> Thx!
> —ml—
> 

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