[Babase] Pdf error message

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Sun, 15 May 2005 23:43:50 +0000


Hi Anne,

I get this message generating docbook output.

I/O error : Attempt to load network entity  
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd
/home/kop/biz/babase/tla/babase-live/doc/babase_system.xml:3: warning:  
failed to load external entity  
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"
           "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd">

This is where I through the dtd declartion was broken, but apparently
that is not the problem.

It seems the oasis webserver is broken, and has been for a year.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200405/msg00000.html
http://urchin.earth.li/ecn/

This screws up our Chicago docbook output generation, although
the result is still readable and probably good enough for
checking the basics of the ouput.  Oasis seems to be ignoring the
problem.  While there is a technical work-around at our
end it's easiest to just go to papio if you want to generate
clean docbook output.  :-(

If it becomes necessary to generate clean output at our
end we can do further work.  Sorry about the hassles.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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