On Thursday 22 March 2007 21:54, Ken Moffat wrote: > Is there something I should have done to transition from a 4.4 > installation which used to work? I've built sgml-common and > docbook-4.5 per blfs, and now attempts to render the book choke. > > appendices/acknowledgments.xml:387: parser error : Entity 'ndash' > not defined > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> – LFS Technical Writer</para>
The – entity should be defined in /usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/ent/isopub.ent. > warning: failed to load external > entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; This sounds very much like your /etc/xml/catalog and/or /etc/xml/docbook catalogues aren't configured correctly. /etc/xml/catalog should have the following entries: <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook"/> <delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS///DTD DocBook XML" catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook"/> <delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/"; catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook"/> <delegateURI uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/"; catalog="file:///etc/xml/docbook"/> /etc/xml/docbook should have the following entries: <public publicId="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" uri="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML CALS Table Model V4.5//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/calstblx.dtd"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML Exchange Table Model 19990315//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/soextblx.dtd"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML Information Pool V4.5//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbpoolx.mod"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML Document Hierarchy V4.5//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbhierx.mod"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML HTML Tables V4.5//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/htmltblx.mod"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Notations V4.5//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbnotnx.mod"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Character Entities V4.5//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbcentx.mod"/> <public publicId="-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Additional General Entities V4.5//EN" uri="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbgenent.mod"/> <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5"; rewritePrefix="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5"/> <rewriteURI uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5"; rewritePrefix="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5"/> There are some additional lines to configure compatibility with previous versions of the DocBook DTD, but they're not relevant to the LFS book. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
