Clay,
I am a bit surprised. The docbook dtd clearly defines the entity → in iso-num.ent: <!ENTITY rarr "→"> <!-- RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW --> Why does not the forrest build see this? Does it not read the DTD?
I do not like character entities in decimal numbers. I can never figure out what they refer to. IMO character codes should be given in hexadecimal notation; all Unicode documentation uses this. Then it becomes → as shown above.
Regards, Simon
Changing → to → is an acceptable solution. The xml-fop /forrest/ build does not error out when it tries to validate 'properties.xml'. I made the change and checked it in.
I'd also like to resolve the error in Forrest if possible, so the rest of this POST deals with that.
I suspect the problem is related to the fact that properties.xml references a dtd like this:
<!--
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"docbookx.dtd">
-->A couple of things I note here:
1. It's commented out
2. this is a relative/local link, but the 'docbookx.dtd' is not local
(I also tried 'http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd' and
'http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/' and as expected neither works.)
3. fwiw, iso-num.ent is at
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/ent/iso-num.ent
I'm not very 'up' on DocBook, so this may be how it's 'supposed' to work. Nevertheless, → is the only thing in 'properties.xml' that doesn't validate during the /forrest/ run (unless I replace → with → or →).
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