[tei-council] change breaks DTD generation

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 25 Mar 2013, at 12:18, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the change introducedwith commit 
> r11676 on 6 march by rahtz in order to "allow data.language to have an 
> empty value, as per XML spec" has a somewhat undesirable effect on DTD 
> generation. Namely my local build fails when I try generating the 
> exemplars quite rightly protesting that "()" is not valid as the second 
> part of an ATTDEF declaration thusly
> 
> Entity: line 1: parser error : Content error in the external subset
>  %att.global.attributes;
>                         ^
> Entity: line 7:
> xml:lang ()  #IMPLIED
>                 ^
> make[1]: *** [test-extns] Error 1
> 
> This provokes several questions in my mind not least
> 
> a) what the devil to do about it?
> 
> b) is mr jenkins falling down on the job again -- no sign of this being 
> a problem in the last good build ?
> 


if neither Mr J, nor I on my desktop, see the error then something
odd at your end?    

I am rerunning from clean here to check. what is the context of that error,
i.e. which exemplar is it working on?
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