Hello Steven, Andy, All, sb> Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes: sb> Ur, um. No. Oops. Sorry, my mistake. this took some digging. Here's the story: Entities referenced by DTD are looked up in files by first transliterating to a file name: cd /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/psgml/ egrep -ni transliter *.el /dev/null Compilation started at Sat Jul 4 13:59:44 1998 psgml-parse.el:1968: (nconc subst (list (cons ?p (sgml-transliterate-file pubid))) psgml-parse.el:2096: (cons ?o (sgml-transliterate-file (sgml-matched-string pubid 2))) psgml-parse.el:2098: (cons ?d (sgml-transliterate-file (sgml-matched-string pubid 5))) psgml-parse.el:2100: (cons ?t (sgml-transliterate-file (sgml-matched-string pubid 5))) psgml-parse.el:2103: (list (cons ?v (sgml-transliterate-file psgml-parse.el:2121:(defun sgml-transliterate-file (string) psgml-parse.el:2124: (or (cdr-safe (assq c sgml-public-transliterations)) psgml.el:408:and description will be transliterated according to the variable psgml.el:409:sgml-public-transliterations. If the file exists it will be the file psgml.el:459:(defvar sgml-public-transliterations '((? . ?_) (?/ . ?%)) psgml.el:460: "*Transliteration for characters that should be avoided in file names. grep finished (12 matches found) at Sat Jul 4 13:59:45 Apparently, sgml-public-transliterations does not handle ?:, since it's perfectly legal on UNIX (but not so on WindowsNT, UNC![1]). http://www.sil.org/sgml/sotr9401-a2.html states: .... In the interest of interoperability, this resolution does dictate that any storage object identifier that consists solely of alphanumeric characters, hyphen, period, and underscore must be treated as a file name (these are the characters in the POSIX portable file name character set.) Aforementioned URL also admits that .... This has lead to the propagation of both the dash and the colon in ISO owner identifiers. In the interests of interoperability, this SGML Open resolution requires that all products accept either form as a valid ISO owner identifier. Note, however, that this should not be construed to mean that a public identifier using one form should necessarily cause a catalog lookup match to succeed with a public identifier using the other form; while this resolution requires SGML systems to accept either form as valid, in practice, two entries (differing only by the single ":" or "-" character) may be needed in the catalog if both forms should refer to the same storage object identifier. I suggest that we just expand (defvar sgml-public-transliterations '((? . ?_) (?/ . ?%)) "*Transliteration for characters that should be avoided in file names. This is a list of dotted pairs (FROM . TO); where FROM is the the character to be translated to TO. This is used when parts of a public identifier are used to construct a file name.") into (defvar sgml-public-transliterations '((? . ?_) (?/ . ?%) (?: . ?-)) "*Transliteration for characters that should be avoided in file names. This is a list of dotted pairs (FROM . TO); where FROM is the the character to be translated to TO. This is used when parts of a public identifier are used to construct a file name.") and rename drwxr-xr-x 3 aichner stdsoft 512 Jan 26 05:37 ISO_8879:1986 to drwxr-xr-x 3 aichner stdsoft 512 Jan 26 05:37 ISO_8879-1986 under etc/psgml to make it legal for WindowsNT. Also, since etc/sgml has changed name to etc/psgml, the following occurences have to be reviewed: cd /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/psgml/ egrep -ni '"sgml"' *.el /dev/null Compilation started at Sat Jul 4 14:14:31 1998 psgml-charent.el:40: (concat (locate-data-directory "sgml") "iso88591.map") psgml-html.el:248: ;; (add-submenu nil sgml-html-menu "SGML") psgml-html.el:251: (delete-menu-item '("SGML")))) psgml-parse.el:1976: (t "sgml")))))) psgml-parse.el:3509: '(("sgml" . sgml-do-sgml-declaration) psgml-parse.el:3536: (member tok '("sgml" "doctype"))) psgml.el:367: (locate-data-directory "sgml")) psgml.el:1004: '("SGML" psgml.el:1160: (setq mode-name "SGML") grep finished (10 matches found) at Sat Jul 4 14:14:33 I am sure we have to change (locate-data-directory "sgml") to (locate-data-directory "psgml") but maybe someone knowledgeable on the subject can make suggestions for the other grep-matches above. I'm willing to submit a patch if there's enough feedback to resolve the issues. Thanks, Adrian PS[2]: Has anybody got PSGML menus to actually insert text under XEmacs on Windows NT? I get all the context-sensitive HTML tag menus but they don't insert anything nor do they trigger any error. I suspect they use some mechanism completely un-inmplemented in XEmacs on Windows NT. sb> A Lisp stack backtrace will suffice. Footnotes: [1] Didn't that stand for Unix Non-Compliance? [2] Is there such a thing as a PS[2] in E-mail composition? -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com