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Re: Catalog data for XML versions of ISO character-entity sets



Am Donnerstag, den 17.08.2006, 21:55 +0200 schrieb Michael(tm) Smith:
> I've opened bug 383507 against the xml-core package.
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383507
> 
> The bug relates to the fact that the XML versions of the ISO
> 8879:1986 character-entity sets are officially maintained by the
> W3 with the canonical base URI for them being:
> 
>   http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879/
> 
> The xml-core package adds data to the Debian XML and SGML catalog
> systems for resolving the FPI for those character-entity sets, but
> adds no data for resolving the canonical system ID for them.
> 
> Some mechanisms for resolving URIs using catalogs are configured
> by default to prefer system IDs -- for example, the Apache XML
> Commons Resolver (libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java package); see
> the /etc/xml/resolver/CatalogManager.properties file.
> 
> So when you use the XML Commons Resolver on a Debian system with a
> XML/XSL file that references the ISO 8879:1986 character-entity
> sets using their FPIs and the official www.w3.org URI as a system
> ID, the resolver checks the system ID, and finding no mapping for
> it in the Debian catalog system, initiates a remote HTTP request
> to the www.w3.org site to retrieve the entity files.
> 
> To prevent that, the package should add data for resolving the
> system ID using the base URL above.

Hi Michael. I'm currently working on an update to the sgml-data file,
that will fix both of your bug reports. Because it is a larger update,
it will probably need some time to finish. So this is just a ping, that
someone is working on it :)

CCed you, because of the age of your mail

Regards, Daniel



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