Debian Bug report logs - #423087
w3c-dtd-xhtml: path to entity sets is wrong

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman@Brown.edu>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: w3c-dtd-xhtml: path to entity sets is wrong

Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 12:53:51 -0400 (EDT)

Package: w3c-dtd-xhtml
Version: 1.1-5
Severity: normal


Am I doing something wrong, here? It seems unfathomable that this
package has had this problem since 2004-08-08 and no one has reported
it.

Both the file /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/xhtml1-strict.dtd
and the file /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/catalog refer to the
three entity sets lat1, symbol, and special using system identifiers
that are for files in the same directory as the catalog or DTD, but
the entity files are actually stored in
/usr/share/xml/entities/xhtml/. 
(I presume the same problem is true in at least the catalog.xml file,
if not several of the other DTD files -- I haven't checked.)

P.S. I have solved this on my own system by putting symlinks to the
     entity files into /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/, but I'm
     thinking that for the package perhaps the system identifiers
     should be, e.g., ../../../entities/xhtml/xhtml-lat1.ent.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages w3c-dtd-xhtml depends on:
ii  sgml-base                     1.26       SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii  sgml-data                     2.0.3      common SGML and XML data
ii  xml-core                      0.09       XML infrastructure and XML catalog

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 423087@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>

To: 423087@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 423087-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#423087: w3c-dtd-xhtml: path to entity sets is wrong

Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:16:01 +0200

Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2007, 12:53 -0400 schrieb Syd Bauman:
> Package: w3c-dtd-xhtml
> Version: 1.1-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, here? It seems unfathomable that this
> package has had this problem since 2004-08-08 and no one has reported
> it.
> 
> Both the file /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/xhtml1-strict.dtd
> and the file /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/catalog refer to the
> three entity sets lat1, symbol, and special using system identifiers
> that are for files in the same directory as the catalog or DTD, but
> the entity files are actually stored in
> /usr/share/xml/entities/xhtml/. 

The catalog does not refer to them. They are commented. The catalog used
seems to be /usr/share/xml/entities/xhtml/catalog, which is ok.

$ xmlcatalog --sgml /etc/sgml/catalog "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN"
/usr/share/xml/entities/xhtml/xhtml-lat1.ent

Looks good. It resolves the location correctly.

> (I presume the same problem is true in at least the catalog.xml file,
> if not several of the other DTD files -- I haven't checked.)

$ xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN"
file:///usr/share/xml/entities/xhtml/xhtml-lat1.ent

Looks good to me too. I don't see any issue.

> P.S. I have solved this on my own system by putting symlinks to the
>      entity files into /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/, but I'm
>      thinking that for the package perhaps the system identifiers
>      should be, e.g., ../../../entities/xhtml/xhtml-lat1.ent.

Which issues did you observe, that these steps became necessary IYO?

Regards, Daniel

Message #18 received at 423087@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Onkar Shinde" <onkarshinde@gmail.com>

To: 423087@bugs.debian.org

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:49:12 +0530

The problem is that the DTD can not be used for validation in programs
(at least java applications). The reason is that the program tries to
find entity sets in same directory as DTD since the DTD contains only
file names and not full path.

Is there any solution for this other than having symlinks in
appropriate directories?

Message #23 received at 423087@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>

To: Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@gmail.com>, 423087@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#423087:

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:48:39 +0100

Am Dienstag, den 15.01.2008, 20:49 +0530 schrieb Onkar Shinde:
> The problem is that the DTD can not be used for validation in programs
> (at least java applications). The reason is that the program tries to
> find entity sets in same directory as DTD since the DTD contains only
> file names and not full path.
> 
> Is there any solution for this other than having symlinks in
> appropriate directories?

Use libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java(-gcj) and add the .jar
and /etc/xml/resolver/ to the classpath. This will make use of the
catalogs.

Regards, Daniel

Message #28 received at 423087@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Onkar Shinde" <onkarshinde@gmail.com>

To: 423087@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#423087:

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:53:18 +0530

On Jan 22, 2008 11:18 PM, Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 15.01.2008, 20:49 +0530 schrieb Onkar Shinde:
> > The problem is that the DTD can not be used for validation in programs
> > (at least java applications). The reason is that the program tries to
> > find entity sets in same directory as DTD since the DTD contains only
> > file names and not full path.
> >
> > Is there any solution for this other than having symlinks in
> > appropriate directories?
>
> Use libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java(-gcj) and add the .jar
> and /etc/xml/resolver/ to the classpath. This will make use of the
> catalogs.

(Forgot to do rely all previously, hence this response didn't land in BTS).

Do you really expect the users/developers to have that library
installed whenever they want to programatically validate xml files
using DTDs from this package.

Why not move the entity sets in the same directory as DTD.
If that is not possible then we can simply add symlinks.


Regards,
Onkar

Message #33 received at 423087@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Onkar Shinde" <onkarshinde@gmail.com>

To: 423087@bugs.debian.org

Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:58:58 +0530

The problem is resolved in the Ubuntu version in hardy (8.04) in
acceptable way (IMO), even if you don't agree it is a problem.
I will be glad if the fix will be merged in Debian.


Regards,
Onkar

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Cc: w3c-dtd-xhtml@packages.debian.org, w3c-dtd-xhtml@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#711332: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:38:31 +0000

Version: 1.2-4+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package w3c-dtd-xhtml has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/711332

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