Hi Hussein,
Thanks a lot for looking into this for me-- I guess I'll just stick
with my custom ant solution for now. That is too bad that one can't seem
to import existing references like GridSphereLinks.xml, it makes it a
lot easier not to have to rewrite those every time for each section that
may need it.
Cheers, Jason
Hussein Shafie wrote:
> Jason Novotny wrote:
>
>> Here are my files:
>>
>> I load in UsersGuide.xml which imports the other files, I can see my
>> document is loaded up but I get that error when I try to
>> convert to HTML.
>>
>
> XXE has not been designed to handle documents such as yours which
> heavily makes use of references to external entities.
>
> In the case of UsersGuide.xml, the killer is:
> ---
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
> "../common/docbook-xml-4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
> <!-- Useful snippets -->
>
> <!ENTITY % GridSphereLinks SYSTEM "GridSphereLinks.xml">
> %GridSphereLinks; <------------------------------------- ***THIS***
>
> <!-- Each chapter is in its own file -->[*]
>
> <!ENTITY chap-intro SYSTEM "intro.xml">
>
> <!ENTITY chap-config SYSTEM "config.xml">
>
> <!ENTITY chap-install SYSTEM "install.xml">
>
> <!-- Application, page, library, component specification entities -->
> ]>
> ---
> (You forgot to send me GridSphereLinks.xml but I've found one on the
> Internet using Google.)
>
> When XXE transforms a DocBook document to any other format, it does so
> by copying the document and all its resources (e.g. graphics files) to a
> temporary working directory (e.g. /tmp/xxe23456).
>
> XXE should have copied GridSphereLinks.xml too to this temporary
> directory to make Saxon happy (this is not really needed because XXE
> creates a ``flat'' XML file for use by Saxon where all entities,
> including those defined in GridSphereLinks.xml, have been replaced).
>
> This is not a bug (not even a limitation because we have not created XXE
> to do this) but this makes XXE unusable for you (more info. in
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/detailed_features.html#nonfeatures).
> Sorry for that.
>
>
>
> ---
> [*] This comment is false: intro.xml and al. contain a bunch of <sect1>
> and not a <chapter>. This also is not supported by XXE. (A single
> <chapter> would have worked fine.)
>
> ---
> PS: UsersGuide.xml is structurally invalid. For example, you directly
> write some text in a <sect1> instead of doing so in a <para>.
>
>
>
