Re: DOCBOOK: broken link

[ed nixon <ed.nixon@lynnparkplace.org>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Carlos Araya wrote:
>>I can access it without problems, IE 6.0SP1 gives me a partsing error but
>>I'm not too worried about that
>>
>>>  www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/specs/cs-docbook-docbook-4.2.xml
> 
> hmmm ... mozilla gives me an XML parsing error, undefined entity, 
> line 791, column 28, and that's it:
> 
> <revnumber>Working Draft &ldquo;Beta etc ...
> -------------------^
> 
> why would mozilla fail for me and work for others?  no, no, don't
> answer that ...

I knew I should have bookmarked that link: I read an email exchange on 
one of the Mozilla developer lists describing the parse/validation 
strategy Mozilla uses. Essentially, it is "incomplete". One result is 
that entities such as &ldquo; stored externally to the DTD are not 
resolved (or normalized?). If I understand what I read and it is 
accurate, it may be the entity that is generating the error for you.

Of course, this is a "what" response, not a "why" response. :-)

           ...edN