Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

>   I have written a couple of Makefile rules to check my docbook XML is
> valid. for this task I used xmllint. It used to work pretty nicely up
> to now. Could someone please let me know what is the issue with the
> following:
> 
> $ cat section.xml
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>   <section>
>     <title/>
>       <para>&amp; is ok</para>
>       <para>&hellip; is not ok</para>
>   </section>

Your section.xml file is missing !DOCTYPE which references DocBook DTD
with entity definitions. Please note that with XInclude included files
are parsed separately and then composed together -- you can't use
entities defined in the "main" file as it is possible when using
external entities for composition.

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