Bug 15379 – nsgmls: Different behavior than documentation

Bug 15379 - nsgmls: Different behavior than documentation

Summary:	nsgmls: Different behavior than documentation

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	jade (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends On:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2000-08-04 08:40 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2000-08-31 16:52:36 EDT
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Groups: None (edit)

Description Need Real Name 2000-08-04 08:40:36 EDT

The program "nsgmls" ships with the jade package, but it is originally part
of "PS", I think. Anyway, it behaves differently than documented in the man
page. The default SGML declaration it uses in case the processed document
does not provide one is in face the docbook one. This might be seen as a
documentation error, but it took me quite a long time to find out using
strace... Thanks for your attention.

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2000-08-04 08:46:27 EDT

The docbook SGML declaration that is used is:
/usr/lib/sgml/dtds/decls/docbook.dcl

Steps to reproduce: Run nsgmls example.sgml, with a file example.sgml
containing:

<!DOCTYPE mydoc [
	<!ELEMENT mydoc - -	(blah)>
	<!ELEMENT blah  - O	(#PCDATA)    >
]>
<mydoc>
<blah>Dies ist der Text im blah
</mydoc>

nsgmls says "nsgmls:example.sgml:7:7:E: end tag for "BLAH" omitted, but OMITTAG
NO was specified". According to the man page, the default sgml declaration has
OMITTAG YES.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2000-10-03 11:02:06 EDT

If you have:

SGMLDECL "dtds/decls/docbook.dcl"

in /usr/lib/sgml/CATALOG then this is correct behaviour, at least according to
the documentation I'm looking at.

If this is not the case, please reopen.

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.