Hi,
as promised, I added the required changes to be able to use the well-known character entities (©, ö, ...) instead of the numerical ones (®, ...) in all the XML documents which use common.dtd.
The changes affect the following files in the described way:
* common.dtd: addition of the entity references to their PUBLIC resources
* style/w3c/*.ent & *.dtd: the entity sets plus the used DTDs (required for the validation of the output files)
* build.xml:
* <xmlcatalog> type to allow Ant to use the local
copies of the public W3C resources (see files in w3c) * new target to easily validate the resulting XHTML
docs ('validate-xhtml')* renamed the present 'validate' target to 'validate-xml'
If there are any questions please ask and if you experience any problems please scream up load :-) my first tests run quite nicely, but I can see Ant eating up a fair amount of the available RAM; I sincerely hope that the newly introduced entity sets don't consume too much RAM on weaker systems :-( but lets see how it performs.
BTW, the validation of the generated XHTML files is quite interesting...but look for yourself ;-)
cheers, Erik
