Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.2dfsg1-3 Severity: wishlist I was looking for an OpenOffice.org entries the XML Catalog, and when almost giving up, I was fortunate to bump into Rene Engelhard on #openoffice.org. We discussed a bit there, but I'm submitting this report to add a more permanent record of our findings.
XML catalogs are important to allow other applications to use the DTDs to validate resources. For that reason, it is rather important for openoffice.org debs to add its DTDs to the Debian XML Catalogs. The XML catalogs in Debian are governed by a policy now in drafting: http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/xml-policy/ Apparently, there is a script to add catalogs called update-xmlcatalog, however, this should not be used in packaging. Rather, dh_installxmlcatalogs should be used. However, it needs a local catalog.xml file to do its thing. The local catalog.xml is something that references the DTD of the package in question. There is an example in the Policy, Example 3.6. I can't find an official catalog.xml for OO.o. However, I find some examples by others, see e.g. http://search.cpan.org/src/MSERGEANT/Apache-AxKit-Provider-OpenOffice-1.02/CATALOGS and his concrete example: http://search.cpan.org/src/MSERGEANT/Apache-AxKit-Provider-OpenOffice-1.02/dtds/catalog.xml The Apache Lenya project seems to have similar, simple example: http://lenya.apache.org/1_2_x/components/authoring/openoffice.html#XML+Catalog So, the catalog.xml seems to be rather simple. However, we see that the /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dtd/officedocument/1_0 directory has a lot of *.mod files, and that the above mentioned DocBook example has entries like that. Whether these are optional or what role they play is not clear to us. What is clear, however, that the package should add a package-specific file to /etc/xml/ too. Finally, the policy notes that "Most XML DTDs should be registered in both XML and SGML catalog systems." BTW, perhaps this should be split off into a separate .deb, so that it can be installed independently, for example on a server without X? Not very important, but a sub-wish... :-) Yup, that was about it, I think... :-) Thanks for the attention! Cheers, Kjetil -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.2004-09-07-13.owl.1.oss Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on: ii dictionaries-common [openof 0.24.10 Common utilities for spelling dict ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.2dfsg1-3 OpenOffice.org office suite binary ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-5+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [ope 1.1.2dfsg1-3 English (US) language package for ii openoffice.org-l10n-nb [ope 1.1.2dfsg1-3 Norwegian Bokmal language package ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2dfsg1-3 The OpenSymbol TrueType font -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
