Re: [Opensync-users] SyncML Plugin Problems

[Zach B. <zb...@fo...>]

Quoting Norm Dressler <no...@dr...>:

> norm@lapzilla:~/opensync$ msynctool --sync syncml --wait
> Synchronizing group "syncml"
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
> http://www.syncml.org/docs/syncml_represent_v11_20020213.dtd
> 
> 
> What is that I/O error from?

I got the same error a few days ago, and haven't found a solution yet.  It
seems to come from somewhere way up in libxml-land.  I read somewhere
that "Attempt to load network entity" means I need to have a "correct"
xml catalog (/etc/xml/catalog)... but I have no idea what that means. 
From what I can tell, it seems to be a way of caching DTDs (maybe other
stuff to) locally, which makes sense, but I don't get why trying to load
one from the network is a fatal error.

What distro are you using?  I found a website somewhere (I can't find the
link again, sorry) that said that xml catalogs are notoriously broken on
Debian, which is where I was trying to run, and I temporarily gave up
when I couldn't find any advice on *fixing* them.  Figuring out how to
fix them myself seemed too daunting; it looks like it requires touching
at least half a dozen files scattered across the file system, none of
which make much sense to me.

For what it's worth, the DTD is no longer available at that URL, and as
near as I can tell, the only way to download it from whoever owns
syncml.org is to dig pretty deep on the site, and agree to a
click-through license agreement or two.  Which sucks for what I've always
assumed was an "open" standard.  I'd love to be proven wrong...

When I get home, I'll try to dig up the sites where I got this info :o)

Sorry I couldn't actually help, but I hope this information will be useful
to someone...

Zach

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