DOCBOOK-APPS: xmllint and &

[Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>]

Title: Personal Stationery

I'm getting the following error when parsing my documentation with xmllint:

 

D:\>xmllint --loaddtd --noout file:///epicclass/drivers/ansyshelp.xml Entity: line 1: error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
&
^
file:///epicuser/books/entities/capabilitiestable.xml:82: error: Entity value required
<row><entry colname="col1">Distributed Resistances &amp; Sources</entry><entry
                                                        ^
file:///epicuser/books/entities/capabilitiestable.xml:171: error: chunk is not well balanced

I'm using "xmllint: using libxml version 20430" on Windows.

 

When I edit my local copy of the DocBook DTD and remove the following line from the iso-num.ent file, everything works:

<!ENTITY amp "&#x0026;"> <!-- AMPERSAND -->

 

Any comments or suggestions on how to fix this without messing with the DTD?  I have, by the way, verified that xmllint is reading the other character entities just fine.  It seems only to be a problem with the &amp; entity.

 

Jeff Beal

Tools Specialist

ANSYS, Inc.

(724) 514-3150