Re: [docbook-tc] issues found in docbook 4.4b1 / SGML

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> was heard to say:
|> Notes docbook 4.4b1.
|> 
|> 4.4b1/SGML catalog.xml includes this new entry:
|> +<public publicId="-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML HTML Tables V4.4b1//EN"
|> + uri="htmltblx.mod"/>
|> +
|> is this intentional?
|> 
|> catalog.xml includes:
|> <public publicId="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4b1//EN"
|>         uri="docbookx.dtd"/>
|> Why?  Shouldn't this just be in the docbook-xml only page?
|> 
|> Why does 4.4b1/SGML include (and register in both catalogs)
|> docbookx.dtd ?  Isn't this supposed to be from the docbook XML
|> version?

The SGML DTD is nothing more than a simple customization on top of the
XML DTD at this point. So loading the SGML DTD requires loading the
XML DTD. Hence, the XML entities are specified in the SGML catalog.

|> 4.4b1/SGML ChangeLog doesn't indicate the correction in catalog.xml:

Yeah, I'm not sure what to do about the change logs.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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