ports/63035: textproc/xhtml-basic: fix SGMLDECL problem

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:44:11PM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Hi, sorry for the delay.
> 
> "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar at freebsd.org> wrote
>   in <20040219150116.GC55843 at madman.celabo.org>:
> 
> nectar> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=63035
> nectar> 
> nectar> Hmm, the SGMLDECL is required for jade and nsgmls.  Perhaps someone on
> nectar> freebsd-doc@ can explain the best way to set this up to support the
> nectar> widest variety of tools.
> 
>  It is true, but SGMLDECL is too strong so that if ${PREFIX}/share/sgml/
>  catalog.ports is used and one of the catalogs has SGMLDECL "xml1.dcl",
>  tools such as nsgmls assume that all documents are written in XML.
>  So people cannot use SGML docs with this declaration.  SGMLDECL is
>  for stand-alone, DTD specific catalog, and one of the features that
>  should not be used in the catalog-chain like ${PREFIX}/share/sgml/
>  catalog.ports.

Ah, that makes some sense!  Thank you.

>  How about using DTDDECL instead?  DTDDECL is a more reasonable
>  solution.  Some old tools do not support this, but the SGML declaration
>  for the standard SGML and the standard XML are usually built-in
>  the SGML/XML tools, so I do not think that is problematic.
> 
>  Please let me know if you need a patch, thanks.

I'm not familiar with DTDDECL, so a patch would be great!  Does nsgmls
grok DTDDECL?

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org