Re: Recursive entity reference "%ISOamsa" error

["Mark Peters" <flickrmeister@gmail.com>]

Update:

I manually translated all of my entity references, one by one,
applying the stylesheet after translating each entity. Currently, my
XML file contains no entities -- no declarations, no entities in the
document content. But I'm still encountering the "Recursive entity
reference "%ISOamsa" error.

I tried removing the DOCTYPE declaration from my XML document, with
the same result. So now I'm baffled. If my XSLT processor is
complaining because it can't parse my document with its entity
references -- but there *aren't* any entity references -- then
something else must be going on.

I appreciate any input you can provide. I'll keep at it.

Mark




On 7/14/06, Mark Peters <flickrmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> After structuring a FrameMaker chapter in DocBook XML tags and saving
> the file as XML, I attempted to apply a simple XSL stylesheet to the
> XML document, which would simply copy all the nodes and attributes to
> another document.
>
> I'm encountering the error "Recursive entity reference "%ISOamsa."
>
> The complete error:
>
> ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Arrow Relations//EN//XML; Line #55;
> Column #10; XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerException): Recursive ent
> ity reference "%ISOamsa". (Reference path: %ISOamsa -> %ISOamsa -> %ISOamsa),
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Recursive entity referenc
> e "%ISOamsa". (Reference path: %ISOamsa -> %ISOamsa -> %ISOamsa),
>        at org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process.doExit(Process.java:1153)
>        at org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process.main(Process.java:1126)
>
>
> I think this error indicates that some math symbols aren't declared in
> my DTD. I tried using the standard FrameMaker xdocbook DOCTYPE
> declaration:
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE NoName SYSTEM
> "file:///C:/Program%20Files/Adobe/FrameMaker7.0/structure/xml/xdocbook/app/docbookx.dtd">
>
>
> I also tried variations on the DocBook DOCTYPE public declaration. For example:
>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd";>
> <!ENTITY % dbcent PUBLIC "-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook Character
> Entities V4.2//EN" "dbcentx.mod"> %dbcent;
>
>
> The error persists.
>
>
> My XSL:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
>        <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0"/>
>        <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
>                <xsl:copy>
>                        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
>                </xsl:copy>
>        </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> The information I found indicates that the replacement text for an
> entity cannot reference *another* entity:
>
> "One word of warning: you cannot reference an entity within its
> replacement text as this will create a recursive loop. For this
> reason, the replacement string cannot contain any characters that
> might be treated as short references which should be mapped to the
> entity being defined."
>
> However, my XML document (which is too large to paste here) doesn't
> seem to include anything but simple entities. I don't have any
> declared entities, and the only other character entities included are
> as follows:
>
> &trade (trademark)
> &reg; (registered trademark)
> &sol; (forward slash)
> &ast; (asterisk)
> &lowbar; (underscore)
> &lt; (less than)
> &gt; (greater than)
> &boxv; (vertical line)
> &mdash; (em-dash)
> &lsquo; (left single quote)
> &rsquo; (right single quote)
> &ldquo; (left double quote)
> &rdquo; (right double quote)
> &equals (equals)
>
> Has anyone on this list resolved this error, or can anyone think of
> another reason for the error?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark
>
> --
>
> Mark Peters
> Senior Technical Writer
> Saba Software
>
>
> --
>
> Mark Peters
> Senior Technical Writer
> Saba Software
>


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Mark Peters
Senior Technical Writer
Saba Software