Bug#183728: dia: DTDs should be registered

[Adam Di Carlo]

Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> writes:

> * Dia files usually don't carry a DOCTYPE declaration so DTDs in the
> catalogs won't probably be useful

That's not necessarily a problem.  Most XML processing packages can be
told the FPI of the DTD.

> * Dia upstream doesn't ship catalog files (this could be worked around,
> but unfortunately, there is also the next point...)

It's common that package maintainers have to create or at least modify
catalogs.

> * There are no PUBLIC or SYSTEM identifiers known for diagram.dtd,
> shape.dtd and sheet.dtd, so I don't know what to write into the local
> catalog file. There are xmlns ids known but those are not necessarily
> related to the former ones.

That's a serious issue.  Probably enough to just kick this bug
upstream?

> Therefore, the registration will be deferred. But feel free to help
> here.
>
> I will talk to upstream to improve the situation.

Yes, that would be best.

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