Adding boilerplate errata/CVS instructions

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Fri Nov 19 00:54:18 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:26 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:45, David Malcolm wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:39 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > >
> > 
> > Done, as this one:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139931
> > 
> > Should this go on a tracker bug somewhere?
> 
> I don't think there is one, just falls in the "all open fedora-docs
> bugs" category.
> 
> > > Might also want to patch fedora-entities-en.xml to have it make the
> > > entity declaration:
> > > 
> > > <!ENTITY ERRATA-TIP-EN SYSTEM "errata-en.xml">
> > 
> > Would doing this require that any files using fedora-entities-en.xml
> > define the various entities referred to in errata-en.xml ? (and hence
> > break all the existing docs, until they get fixed?)
> 
> Good question.  I _think_ it would only come into play if explicitly
> called by the document.   Here's a test.
> 
> I added this to my fedora-entities-en.xml:
> 
> <!ENTITY ABOUT-DOC-EN SYSTEM "about-doc-en.xml">
> 
> then built a document without any error.
> 
> It also validated:
> 
> cd /home/kwade/Documents/projects/fedora/fedora-docs/selinux-apache/
> nsgmls -wxml -s /home/kwade/lib/psgmlx-0.5/lib/xml.dcl
> selinux-apache-en.xml
> nsgmls:/home/kwade/lib/psgmlx-0.5/lib/xml.dcl:1:W: SGML declaration was
> not implied
> 
> SGML validation finished at Thu Nov 18 16:24:42
> 
> FWIW, that's the way it normally appears when I validate (in Emacs using
> C-c C-v).

OK, great; good idea.  Is xmllint happy with such a setup?  If so, then
the ABOUT-DOC-EN probably _should_ get added to the main entities file.

> 
> > > 
> > > > Any thoughts/rewrites?  Perhaps the heading should read "About This
> > > > Document" instead?
> > > 
> > > Yes, that is more of an accurate title.  Changed that in the attachment.
> > 
> > Perhaps the file should have a different name; perhaps
> > "about-this-document-en.xml" ?
> 
> How about about-doc-en.xml?
Yes, that's much better.

Maybe even "about-fedora-doc-en.xml", to make it clear that this relates
to a Fedora doc? (as opposed to RHEL)


Can I go ahead and commit this (assuming I have access rights)?  Or
should someone else on the list comment first?  I'm just a lowly desktop
developer :-)

Dave




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