Hi, >> and with these two lines in my .bashrc: >> XML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/xml/4.2/catalog.xml >> export XML_CATALOG_FILES >> xsltproc (and xmlto) does not complain and resolves the entities. why don't you use something like SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/etc/sgml/catalog xsltproc --catalogs [..] which makes the whole cataloging system available also to XML processing ? Cheers, Marc Baaden