CATALOG FILE ERROR: Keyword X is delimited. Ignoring the keyword

Answered by: Lynn Hales Last Updated: 2008-10-25

Lynn Hales warns for superfluous quotes

=Question by N.N.=

Have any of you ever seen this error message? I have uninstalled and reinstalled epic5.1M, and rebooted, but I am still getting it.

CATALOG FILE ERROR: Catalog file: C:\Program Files\Arbortext\Epic\doctypes\catalog Keyword "appcfg/catalog" is delimited. Ignoring the keyword

Plus the program wont find any of my public identifiers. I have check and rechecked the catalogs paths and everything makes sense.

=Lynn Hales answers=

What that message usually means is that you have picked up and extra single or double quote (the two allowable XML delimiters) This can be through a fat finger glitch (we add an extra character) or through a missing start or close tag (the ).

You really should not (probably cannot) do something like this in a CATALOG:

ENTITY "what's in a name" "C:\my_epic_files"

The parser will be looking for the close to the single quote in the "what's".