Re: what to do about 'xmlcatalog' incompatability

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Mark Johnson <mrj@ibiblio.org>:

> Agreed. I also discovered a bug in 'xmlcatalog', where it requires a
> *system element where the proper implementation of the xml catalog
> spec.  would indicate the use of a *uri element. In fact, I had to
> add 'incorrect' entries to the xml-catalog for docbook-xsl just so
> some gtk stuff (which uses 'xmlcatalog') would build properly. So I
> guess I'm not a big fan of the 'xmlcatalog' script.

Have you reported this bug to to the upstream maintainers?

If we're taking about the xmlcatalog delivered with libxml2, it isn't
a script, it's a C program, and the correct place to report it, would
be the Gnome bugzilla:
	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libxml2

> As you pointed out earlier, Debian users _really_ need to understand
> how update-xmlcatalog works. And that it should be the _only_ tool
> used to update an xml-catalog. I haven't a clue how to ensure
> something like that, esp given the ubiquity of the 'xmlcatalog'
> script. Tough one.

FWIW, I would have preferred to be able to use xmlcatalog on debian,
as I do on RH.