Re: Invalid links on page

Bob Stayton <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Jan 2019 13:37:30 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.text.docbook.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Filippo,

Regarding the bad links, it seems there is an extra "wd-" in the 
filenames in the URLs on that page. For example:

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/wd-wd-docbook-xmlcharent-0.3.pdf

should be

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/wd-docbook-xmlcharent-0.3.pdf

Thanks for pointing that out.

Regarding character entities in DocBook 5, you should read this section 
in my online book:

    http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Db5Entities.html

It points out that the DocBook 5 schema does not include those character 
entity declarations (because RelaxNG does not support entity 
declarations), but describes how to borrow those from DocBook 4 if you 
want them. Personally, I no longer use named character entities because 
my XML editing program can display Unicode characters directly.

I don't know of a single table that lists all the DocBook character 
entities.  The reference documentation for DocBook character entities is 
in several tables in /DocBook: The Definitive Guide/ for version 4, 
available online at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/refchar.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]

On 1/5/2019 9:51 AM, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> thank you for your work on DocBook.
>
> I would like to report that the xml/html/pdf links on page
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/wd-docbook-xmlcharent-0.3.html#isoamsa 
>
>
> all fail.
>
> I am currently discovering DocBook and am absolutely impressed. I have 
> many uses
> of Greek characters as I am currently converting a LaTeX document to 
> DocBook.
> What is the most recent DocBook5 character entity listing available. I
> understand that people use the DB 4.5 version of the dbcent listing. 
> Where can I
> find a reliable table of *all* the entities usable with DB 5.x ?
>
> Thank you for your kind attention,
>
> Sincerely,
> Filippo Rusconi
>