Re: XML output and &latex; entity undefined

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 02:01:12PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Gavin - another long-pending thing I haven't had a chance to get to the
> bottom of.  The TexinfoXML file generated here,
>   http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/latexrefman/trunk/latex2e.xml
> visited in a browser, gives the error:
> 
> XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
> Location: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/latexrefman/trunk/latex2e.xml
> Line Number 10, Column 22:<settitle spaces=" ">&latex;2e unofficial ...
> 
> As far as I know this document is not doing anything tricky.  It does use
> @LaTeX{} in the @settitle, but the &latex; entity is defined in the
> specified dtd 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/dtd/6.0/texinfo.dtd
> as far as I can see.

I think that it is not an issue with the document, but with the fact
that the DTD file is not found.  Therefore it stops the parsing at the
first entity, as it can parse elements without a DTD.

I do not know where the browser look for DTD.  I believe that it does
not follow the uri in the document DOCTYPE definition but rather looks
in the system catalog for DTDs, but that's a wild guess.

-- 
Pat