Thanks Karl. I am in thr process of learning Beamer and your recent update of , december 2015, was very helpful.
Thansk for everything. -peter On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Finally getting back to your email about latex2e.xml. > > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:17:41 -0600 > the bug is in the downloading and not the file. > > I've belatedly understood an arbitrary .xml file, even when associated > with an correct DTD, cannot be displayed by web browsers. That even > makes some sense, since there's no reason why an arbitrary DTD would > have any kind of display information. > > Admittedly the browser error message about an undefined entity is > strange. Apparently browsers do not even bother to look up the DTD > (where the entity is defined). Guess they aren't XML validators, either. > > The purpose of the Texinfo .xml output is to provide what amounts to a > transliteration of the source, for further processing by other software, > rather than for human consumption. So I've removed the links from the > latexrefman web page. The .xml files are still in the repository, and > will be updated, in the unlikely event that they ever become useful to > someone. > > If you want something you can actually view, use whichever of the other > formats you like. > > Best, > Karl >
