Florian Schweikert wrote: > at the moment we are evaluating XMLMind (using the Standard Edition for > this task), as we are using DocBook for our rising XML Authoring System. > > Unfortunately, we can't get our setup running. The problem is, that we > do not start with DocBook directly, but have an own dtd (boc.dtd) that > references DocBook and a couple of Entity Files. As soon as opening a > file containing one of the entities, an error message appears. > > Can you please help us to overcome this problem? Attached you will find > dummy copies of the problem files.
--> In your case, the behavior of XMLmind XML Editor seems to be strictly compliant with the XML standard. * You cannot open bookmws.xml in XMLmind XML Editor because ** it references entities such as "ToolName" which seems to be defined the boc.dtd external subset ** and bookmws.xml has no <!DOCTYPE> which relates it to boc.dtd. * You cannot open ADOxx.xml in XMLmind XML Editor because ** it references entity "MWS" which points to bookmws.xml ** and there is a problem with bookmws.xml. --> The problem is that bookmws.xml starts with: --- <?xml version="1.0"?> --- A document can start with: --- <?xml version="1.0"?> --- An external entity such as bookmws.xml *cannot* start with: --- <?xml version="1.0"?> --- Excerpt of http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#TextEntities: --- External parsed entities should each begin with a text declaration. Text Declaration [77] TextDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo? EncodingDecl S? '?>' --- If you edit bookmws.xml using a text editor and replace --- <?xml version="1.0"?> --- by --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?> --- you'll be able open ADOxx.xml in XMLmind XML Editor (but you'll get a warning about the "MWS" entity ``not being managed''). --> If you really want to work that way, that is, using entities defined in the boc.dtd external subset, I would frankly recommend to use an XML editor other than XMLmind's (due to XMLmind's important limitations regarding the handling of external entities).
