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Re: Question abot DTDDECL and SGMLDECL



Am Mittwoch, den 18.04.2007, 21:37 -0400 schrieb Neil Roeth:
> On Apr 18, Daniel Leidert (daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net) wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I hope, a few people are still reading this list :) My question: What
>  > goes wrong? The docbook-xml SGML catalogs contain a DTDDECL entry
>  > 
>  > DTDDECL "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
>  >         "/usr/share/xml/declaration/xml.dcl"
>  > 
>  > If I do a
>  > 
>  > onsgmls -E1 -wxml -wall -gues test-4.5.xml
>  > 
>  > with a simple DB 4.5 XML file, it fails. If I add a SGMLDECL entry:
>  > 
>  > SGMLDECL "/usr/share/xml/declaration/xml.dcl"
>  > 
>  > it succeeds. Why does it fail in the first case? The PUBIDs are the same
>  > in the DTDDECL and the testfile DOCTYPE. If there is some documentation
>  > out there, that can explain my question, please don't hesitate to point
>  > me to it.
>  > 
>  > Regards, Daniel
> 
> Simply because the debian version was built with the config option
> --disable-dtddecl.  That was done for performance reasons, enabling DTDDECLs
> makes opensp and openjade take literally ten to twenty times as long as with
> it turned off.  See bugs 138924 and 208042.

Thanks for the info. Would it make sense to mention this somewhere in
the onsgmls man-page? Under BUGS or in a section LIMITATIONS (following
the man-page how to)? This could also be a reasonable solution for
http://bugs.debian.org/345478.

Regards, Daniel



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