Elizabeth,

Did you set the eadchars/eadnotat inclusion/exclusion flag to 'IGNORE' in
the file called ead.dtd?  It should be set this way for XML applications.
See the DTD snippit below for an example.


<!--************************************************************-->
<!--          SGML EADNOTAT AND EADCHARS INCLUSION/EXCLUSION    -->
<!--************************************************************-->
<!--                                                            -->
<!--     NOTE 1: eadchars.ent should only be invoked for SGML   -->
<!--     applications. For XML, use Unicode &#xN; where "N"     -->
<!--     is the Unicode Hexadecimal value assigned by the       -->
<!--     standard.                                              -->
<!--                                                            -->
<!--     NOTE 2: eadnotat.ent should only be invoked for SGML   -->
<!--     applications. For XML, the eadnotat.ent file should be -->
<!--     invoked in the declaration subset of individual        -->
<!--     instance.                                              -->
<!--                                                            -->
<!--     For more information, see Extensible Markup Language   -->
<!--     (XML) 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210  -->
<!--                                                            -->
<!--************************************************************-->

<!ENTITY % sgml           'IGNORE'
                                                                  >


Stephen

Stephen Miller
Project Manager, NCEAD
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Duke University



-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Perkes <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 5:00 PM
Subject: Syntax error from eadchars.ent file


Hi,

I'm new to EAD, so nobody laugh, but I'm having difficulty with one of the
DTD files. I have a finding aid in EAD/XML and an XSL stylesheet which I am
trying to output to HTML using the Win32 version of XT. I can get XT to run,
and it notified me of various errors with my stylesheet, which I have
corrected, but now it is giving me an error about the eadchars.ent file.
There seems to be a syntax problem on line 187. (In case anyone wonders, I
did make sure to transfer these files as a binary files.) Now, when I look
at line 187 it says: "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN".

Is there a typo here, or are there conflicting standards between the DTD,
stylesheet, and XT do you think?

Thanks for your help!

Elizabeth Perkes
Utah State Archives