Bug#396888: dblatex cannot find or use DocBook standard character entities

[Andreas Hoenen]

The upstream author (Benoit Guillon) has commented:

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> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:58:03 +0100
> To: "Andreas Hoenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Dblatex-devel] [Dblatex-users] Announce: dblatex-0.2
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: "benoit.guillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<snip/>
> BTW, about bug/whish #396888 there's nothing to do: declaring the doctype
> is required to have entities, and tweaking dblatex to avoid such a
> declaration is a bad idea since one never knows which docbook version is
> actually required. Moreover if one does the HTML compilation he will have
> the same result:
>
> xsltproc /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook/html/chunk.xsl example.xml
> example.xml:31: parser error : Entity 'mdash' not defined
> Permission is &mdash;granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
> document und
>                       ^
> unable to parse example.xml

Thus this wish is very unlikely to be fulfilled, sorry.

A possible way to split one large document into many small files and
nevertheless to utilize character entities is to compose valid DocBook
files (with fine granularity root elements like chapter) and to combine
them into the master document by XInclude elements.

Regards, Andreas Hoenen
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