id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	port
5819	NEW: textproc/xmlcatmgr-2.2	murray@…	macports-tickets@lists.macosforge.org	"XML Catalog Manager (xmlcatmgr in its short form) is a small utility used to
manipulate SGML and XML catalogs.  It is extremely small and lightweight,
specially designed to be run from packaging systems.  Basically, it allows
adding and removing entries from catalogs in a completely automated way.

A catalog is a lookup mechanism used to translate entities into other different
entities.  They can, for example, map public identifiers to local files or URIs.
 This allows you to tell the parser where to look for entities without having to
modify the original document source.

A catalog manager such as xmlcatmgr or mkcatalog should be called automatically
by the install scripts of SGML DTDs such as linux-doc or the recently submitted
HTML darwinport.  This package is not a requirement for those, but will make
them much easier to use.

mkcatalog already exists in the DarwinPorts tree, but it does not seem to be
used automatically by the DarwinPorts system for DTD ports.  FreeBSD switched to
xmlcatmgr in 2003, and the utility was originally written for the NetBSD pkgsrc
system.

With a catalog manager in darwinports, and tweaks to DTD portfiles to use it, it
should eventually be possible for SGML DTDs to be installed and for SGML tools
to automatically know which DTDs are available and how to validate documents
with them. Right now, that is a very painful process on Darwin."	defect	closed	Normal		ports	1.0	fixed