[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#763598: Bug#763598: docbook-xml: xmllint fails to identify local copy of docbook entities file

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Seriously, atm I have no clue, how to easily fix this globally. The XML
> catalog system of Debian has some serious flaws and needs a complete
> rewrite. In the future I'd like to use the <nextCatalog> element instead
> of registering system and public identifiers on the system catalog
> itself or maybe use the <group> element around them. This could solve
> the problem. We cannot set the "prefer" attribute globally, because this
> would conflict with catalog files, where the prefer mode conflicts with
> the chosen global mode. I'd suggest to
> use /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.5/catalog.xml as catalog for
> your DocBook files atm as a quick workaround. I'll check for possible
> solutions.

Fedora uses a catalog with <rewriteSystem> and <rewriteURI>:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=943232
(see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1143060#c26 for the
context)

Couldn't we use the same here? It seems to work very well for their needs.

I want to push the latest publican version to jessie and I would like to
see a fix for this issue, and one that doesn't involve a full rewrite 
seems more reasonable :)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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