Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] scrollkeeper 0.3.8 compilation on Solaris8

[John F. <jf...@in...>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:30:13AM +0100, Damien Donlon wrote:

> Also at the end of the 'make install' it 
> attempts to open the docbookx.dtd definition from 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/ but our firewall stopped it
> as the function which attempts to do so doesn't know anything 
> about our LAN proxy servers :
> 
> /usr/local/bin/scrollkeeper-rebuilddb -q -p /usr/local/var/lib/scrollkeeper
> xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost:  Failed to resolve host 'www.oasis-open.org' - Authoritive host not foundxmlNanoHTTPConnectHost:  Failed to resolve host 'www.oasis-open.org' - Authoritive host not found/usr/local/share/scrollkeeper/doc/writing_scrollkeeper_omf_files/C/writing_scrollkeeper_omf_files.xml:14: warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
> 
> I am not sure how this will impact on the installation?
> In general, how do folks circumvent the firewall problem
> when validating against external DTDs when they are behind a 
> firewall? I cannot use xmllint for validation for this reason also.
> 
> Is there an env variable I ought to be setting? I have using them
> through socks but they don't appear to be socks aware.
> 

This problem should be solved by installing a local version of the
necessary dtd that is properly registered with xmlcatalog. Dan's made
some packages to do this:

 http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/docbook.shtml

Cheers,
John
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