RE: [docbook-apps] XML Catalogs don't work with Saxon?

[Brian Burridge <maillist at burridge dot net>]

I am using resolver-1.0.jar

Brian

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 13:07, David Cramer wrote:
> Older versions of AElfred, Saxon's parser, got confused in a similar way
> resolving entities: it looked for the file relative to the place the
> entity was referenced rather than declared. Any chance an older version
> of AElfred is involved here?
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs at sco dot com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: Brian Burridge
> Cc: DocBookApps
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] XML Catalogs don't work with Saxon?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:29:33PM -0500, Brian Burridge wrote:
> > When I run my stylesheet with XML Catalogs, everything works fine
> until
> > it gets to processing the docbookx.dtd itself. Then it crashes on
> > dbnotnx.mod. Here is the output:
> > 
> > resolveSystem(http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd)
> > Resolved system:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd
> >         file:/home/bburridg/IBM/wsappdev/DocBook/DocBook/docbookx.dtd
> >
> resolveSystem(file:/home/bburridg/IBM/wsappdev/DocBook/DocBook/DesignDoc
> ument/dbnotnx.mod)
> > resolvePublic(-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook Notations
> >
> V4.2//EN,file:/home/bburridg/IBM/wsappdev/DocBook/DocBook/DesignDocument
> /dbnotnx.mod)
> > Error on line 99 column 1 of
> >
> file:/home/bburridg/IBM/wsappdev/DocBook/DocBook/DesignDocument/FAR2Desi
> gnDocument.xml:
> >   Error reported by XML parser: Cannot read from
> >
> file:/home/bburridg/IBM/wsappdev/DocBook/DocBook/DesignDocument/dbnotnx.
> mod
> (/home/bburridg/IBM/wsappdev/DocBook/DocBook/DesignDocument/dbnotnx.mod
> (No such file or directory))
> > Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported
> 
> I've seen this before, and it is just strange.
> Once the docbookx.dtd file is found, the references to
> dbnotnx.mod etc. are all relative to that file.
> The resolver should be able to follow such references,
> but it doesn't.  Once the resolver is in use, it
> seems every reference must be resolved by a catalog entry,
> with the fallback being the raw path to the file
> (which is just "dbnotnx.mod" in this case).
> 
> You can add a reference to the DTD catalog file in your
> main catalog with something like:
> 
> <nextCatalog
> catalog="file:/home/bburridg/IBM/wsappdev/DocBook/DocBook/catalog.xml"/>