#1010134 xml-core: please improve message "error: entity not registered" with details

Package:
xml-core
Source:
xml-core
Submitter:
Vincent Lefevre
Date:
2026-01-10 11:40:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#1010134#5
Date:
2022-04-25 01:32:38 UTC
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When testing the patch for bug 1003933, I get the following error
messages:

update-xmlcatalog: error: entity not registered
update-xmlcatalog: error: entity not registered
update-xmlcatalog: error: entity not registered
update-xmlcatalog: error: entity not registered

They should be more detailed, e.g. telling which entity is not
registered.
#1010134#12
Date:
2022-04-25 20:02:54 UTC
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Hi Vincent,

Vincent Lefevre, on 2022-04-25:

Thanks as well for checking!

Using the patch attached to make the error a bit more verbose,
I ended up with the following URI:

update-xmlcatalog: error: entity referred by "http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod" not registered
update-xmlcatalog: error: entity referred by "http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/htmlmathml-f.ent" not registered
update-xmlcatalog: error: entity referred by "http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod" not registered
update-xmlcatalog: error: entity referred by "http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/htmlmathml-f.ent" not registered

Those two have in common to be referenced by duplicate systemId
lines in the catalog:

$ nl htdocs/sgml-lib/catalog.xml | grep -C0 'htmlmathml-f.ent\|xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod'
   253	  <public publicId="-//W3C//ENTITIES XHTML+RDFa Document Model 1.0//EN" uri="REC-rdfa-syntax-20081014/xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod" />
   254	  <system systemId="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod" uri="REC-rdfa-syntax-20081014/xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod" />
   255	  <system systemId="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod" uri="REC-rdfa-syntax-20081014/xhtml-rdfa-model-1.mod" />
--
   538	  <system systemId="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/htmlmathml-f.ent" uri="REC-xml-entity-names-20100401/htmlmathml-f.ent" />
   539	  <system systemId="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/htmlmathml-f.ent" uri="REC-xml-entity-names-20100401/htmlmathml-f.ent" />

I tried to deduplicate both lines just in case, but error
messages remained.  I don't know the root cause I'm afraid.

Any ways, in hope this helps,
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Date:
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