[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#431170: debiandoc2xml replaces entities with their value

[W. Borgert]

Package: debiandoc-sgml
Version: 1.1.101
Severity: normal

>From the following SGML:

<!DOCTYPE debiandoc PUBLIC "-//DebianDoc//DTD DebianDoc//EN" [
  <!ENTITY example "text to be replaced">
]>
<debiandoc>
<book>
<title>Title
<author>I
<chapt>Chapter
<p>
Here goes some &example;, and more &example;.
</book>
</debiandoc>

debiandoc2xml generates the following DocBook:

<chapter id="ch1"><title>Chapter</title>
<para>
Here goes some text to be replaced, and more text to be replaced.
</para>
</chapter>

The problem is, that further maintainance of the DocBook XML
file becomes very hard without the entities from the original
debiandoc source.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debiandoc-sgml depends on:
ii  libhtml-parser-perl       3.55-1         A collection of modules that parse
ii  libroman-perl             1.1-21         Perl module for converting between
ii  libsgmls-perl             1.03ii-31      Perl modules for processing SGML p
ii  libtext-format-perl       0.52-21        Perl module for formatting (text) 
ii  liburi-perl               1.35-2         Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  perl                      5.8.8-7        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libi18n-lan 5.8.8-7        Core Perl modules
ii  sgml-base                 1.26           SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii  sgml-data                 2.0.3          common SGML and XML data
ii  sgmlspl                   1.03ii-31      SGMLS-based example Perl script fo
ii  sp                        1.3.4-1.2.1-47 James Clark's SGML parsing tools

Versions of packages debiandoc-sgml recommends:
ii  gs                         8.54.dfsg.1-5 Transitional package
ii  gs-gpl [gs]                8.54.dfsg.1-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
pn  latex-cjk-all              <none>        (no description available)
ii  libpaper1 [libpaperg]      1.1.21        Library for handling paper charact
ii  tetex-bin                  2007-10       TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii  tetex-extra                2007-10       TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii  texinfo                    4.8.dfsg.1-6  Documentation system for on-line i

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