Re: sgml-validate

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Wed, Feb 16 2011, William F. Hammond wrote:

> For a non-validating parse with onsgmls use something like this shell
> script:

[ snipped]

> For a non-validating parse the specified catalog should contain
> the line
>
> SGMLDECL "xml.dcl"
>
> where "xml.dcl" is James Clark's sgml declaration for xml, usually
> distributed with opensp,

Thank you for all the information

>> The only annoyance is that xmllint keeps telling me that
>> ≥ et al are not valid entities.
>
> Correct.  The only such entities that are available by default are
> '&amp;' for '&', '&lt;' for '<', annd '&gt;' for '>'.
>
> Something like '&ge;' (which I imagine to be U-2265, "greater than or
> equal to") can be defined for in-house use but will not work well
> across the network.  For publication on the network use the character
> itself if the XML instance is given a suitable content-encoding, e.g.,
> utf-8, or use '&#x2265;'.

I had hoped I would be able to put somewhere in my .html file
some version of
<entity-defs>
  ge #x2265
  ...
</entity-defs>
But I see from your reply that this will not be possible.

Thanks again for your expert commentary.
allan