textproc/xmlto: missing XML catalogs?

[Sergei Kolobov]

On 2003-06-16 at 15:36 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:21:43AM +0400, Sergei Kolobov wrote:
> > When building xmlto, I get a lot of warnings from xsltproc similar to this:
> > (manually wrapped for readability)
> > 
> > xmlNanoHTTPConnectAttempt: Connect attempt timed out.
> > /FreeBSD/current/ports/xmlto-0.0.14/xmlto-0.0.14/./doc/xmlif.xml:4: 
> > error: failed to load external entity 
> > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
> > 
> > (also, the build time is greatly increased because of this timeouts).
> > Even though the port successfully builds despite the warnings, I am
> > trying to find out a better way. ;)
> 
> It may be trying to download them from the net (bad port!).  If you
> are building the port on a machine that cannot perform HTTP fetches
> then this would of course fail.  In order to be certain one would need
> to monitor network activity during the build or consult the source.

Well, it DOES try to fetch that DTD via HTTP. As far as I understand,
the purpose of having the XML catalogs install is to avoid those fetches
by mapping URLs to local files.

Now, is there a port that installs or builds XML catalogs?

Sergei