[OpenJade-users] [OpenJade-devel] Openjade, DTDs and all that sort of things.

[Neil R. <ne...@oc...>]

On Dec  9, Jany Quintard (jan...@fr...) wrote:
 > Hi folks
 > 
 > I have asked a pair of questions on the lists and I am getting answers
 > without connection with my question. I guess the question was ill
 > formed. So, here is the problem, and I hope that I make it clear this
 > time.
 > 
 > My probleme is that two versions of Openjade  behave differently. I
 > noticed the problem first using a customized DTD, but I actually don't
 > have problems with catalogs, http support, customized DTDs or things
 > like that: the problem is that a a root element named html is
 > not processed in the same way by different versions of openjade.
 > Actually, it is not processed in the same way by OpenSP.
 > Here a little example using onsgmls:

[snip test case]
 
 > Linux.err:
 > Test with: "OpenSP" version "1.5pre6"
 > Eror (return code = 1) on externe.xml
 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 >  ----------- externePL.xml -> 0 ---------
 >  ----------- externe.xml -> 1 ---------
 > onsgmls:externe.xml:2:32:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name
 > onsgmls:externe.xml:3:5:E: element "html" undefined
 > onsgmls:externe.xml:4:7:E: element "head" undefined
 > onsgmls:externe.xml:5:7:E: element "body" undefined
 >  ----------- internePL.xml -> 0 ---------
 >  ----------- interne.xml -> 0 ---------
 > ===================================
 > 
 > CYGWIN_NT-5.0.err:
 > Test with: "OpenSP" version "1.3.4"
 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 >  ----------- externe.xml -> 0 ---------
 >  ----------- externePL.xml -> 0 ---------
 >  ----------- interne.xml -> 0 ---------
 >  ----------- internePL.xml -> 0 ---------
 > ===================================
 > 
 > So, my question is: Why is there a difference on the processing of
 > externe.xml, which is the file with an "html" root and which uses the external
 > DTD. Is there an automatic switch to html backend with the new version?
 > Why is onsgmls unable to use the DTD? (notice that there is no catalog, no
 > remote file: the DTD is in the same directory).
 > 
 > Jany

OpenSP 1.5.1 on Debian GNU/Linux (unstable) appears to work correctly, i.e.,
it gives the same result as your 1.3.4 run above.

-- 
Neil Roeth