Hi There - Upon examining eadchars.ent, I find that line 187
is the first actual line of SGML/XML (i.e. non-comments) in the file.
So I think that the error is more general than it seems -
i.e. your software may not be able to parse the file or
to understand the modular construction of the EAD.DTD.
This happened with some software I used in the past.
I had to reconstruct a single file DTD.

Sorry that I don't have any specific advice beyond this.

Anyone else?

Timothy Young
Ex Officio - EAD RoundTable, Society of American Archivists
Archivist
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
New Haven, CT  06520
(203) 432-8131

At 02:37 PM 5/18/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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