DOCBOOK-APPS: many errors from jade

["Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>]

Hi,

I've been wanting to learn DocBook for a long time now so I could write the 
programmers manual for ZooLib (http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/).

I recently installed Debian PowerPC on my Mac and was pleased to see that Debian 
offerred a lot of the docbook tools as install options.

I created a DocBook XML file using Emacs and psgml, and it validates OK with
M-x sgml-validate.  But when I try to use either "db2html test.xml" or
"sgmltools --backend=html test.xml" I get many repetitions of the following 
error, each with a small variation:

/usr/bin/jade:/usr/lib/sgml/entities/iso-amsr.ent:7:18:E: "X224D" is not a 
function name

And no HTML output is produced.

I don't know the first thing about how I would diagnose this.

Here is my file test.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBk XML V3.1.3//EN"
  "http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xml/3.1.3/db3xml.dtd" [
<!ENTITY mdc "Michael D. Crawford">
<!ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM "chap1.xml">
]>

<book>
   <title>My First Book"</title>
   &chap1;
</book>


And the file chap1.xml which is included as an entity.  The "Local Variables" 
comment at the bottom instructs psgml to connect this file with the parent document:


<chapter><title>The First Chapter</title>
   <para>The first paragraph</para>
   <para>The second paragraph</para>
</chapter>

<!--
Local Variables:
sgml-parent-document: ("test.xml" "book" "chapter")
End:
-->

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Mike
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