Canonical URL for ‘tr9401.dtd’ not resolving

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Howdy all,

I'm trying to address Bug#550052, so please keep that bug report
included in any relevant response from this.

In short: the ‘tr9401.dtd’ in the ‘w3c-dtd-xhtml’ package is catalogued
with a canonical URL that no longer resolves.


Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org> writes:

> The dtds and the content models can be seen at one of the following:
>
>    http://klecker.debian.org/~mrj/oasis/catalog/xml/
>    http://globaltranscorp.org/oasis/catalog/xml/

No longer. The former times out, the latter domain doesn't resolve in DNS.

What should be the canonical URL for the ‘tr9401.dtd’ document?


Jor-el <jorel@austin.rr.com> writes:

> 	I took a look at the documents, above. What is the value in having
> the tr9401.dtd? The elements in an SOC catalog which have no equivalent in
> an XML Catalog should rightly be thrown away IMHO. SGML processors arent 
> going to handle XML catalogs - which leaves only XML-based-technology
> processors using XML catalogs and so I fail to see the value in these
> elements. If you disagree, you'll have to enlighten me as to why.

I didn't see a response to that. Is there value to Debian in having the
‘w3c-dtd-xhtml’ package incorporate this document?


To address this bug I'd like to either find a justification for removing
the ‘tr9401.dtd’ document (and a mechanism for dropping it cleanly), or
find a reliable canonical URL for it.

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