Re: [Plplot-devel] Will disappear until next Thursday

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am cumulating problems right now.  Besides the screwed up network
access....

Hope you get it all straightened out quickly.

> Just a comment on Alan's last posts: I have the feeling that you are
> following the wrong path regarding that @DOCBOOK_DTD_PUBID@.  I am almost
> sure that api2txt.pl should work with plplotdoc.xml.in, i.e. that it does
> not need the DOCTYPE PUBID definition.  This has always worked in Debian and
> also in Joao's system some time ago.  In sum, it is not a problem of the
> script not finding the DocBook definitions.  Actually, api2txt.pl does not
> need to know anything about DocBook.

You are probably right; we need to learn more about this aspect, and my
educated guesses may be leading us astray. The critical question then is how
does the perl parser know the location of those xml/sgml files you mentioned
where the required entities are defined?  Those locations do vary quite a
bit from distribution to distribution so I think the perl parser must use
the catalog system to find them so that requires a DOCTYPE.  I suppose it is
possible the perl parser has the equivalent of DOCTYPE defined internally so
it has something to search for within the catalogs.  But I hope you research
that and come up with the definitive answer.  I wouldn't want us to depend
on some DOCTYPE default fall-back that usually works (as it has for Debian,
RedHat, and the old SuSe), but which sometimes can fail.

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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