discuss: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
Subject:
Re: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
From:
Mark Komarinski ####@####.####
Date:
14 Mar 2001 20:16:52 -0000
Message-Id: <3AAFD1A3.93C5BCF4@valinux.com>
Heyyy....I bet your /etc/sgml/catalog doesn't point to the XML docbook.dtd,
which is why you are having problems. I do things via packages and let them
sort it out (yay Debian), but you may want to see if there's an RPM
or whatever for your distro that has the XML DTD in it and edits the
/etc/sgml/catalog file.
The solution for IE should be one of two things:
1) IE has its own catalog that needs to know about the XML docbook.dtd
2) URL for the DTD in the LAG
I don't like #2. I really have this thing against needing to use
the network to get a critical file.
-Mark
"Patrick K. O'Brien" wrote:
>
> Your guess is right on the mark. And this is the same thing that Emacs is
> complaining about when I try to parse. On my Linux box I changed the DOCTYPE
> to:
>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN'
> 'dtd/docbook-xml/4.1.2/docbook.dtd' [
>
> That solves my problem with Emacs. However, that may not be what we want to
> advise people to use, as it is specific to a particular directory structure.
> I'm trying to find something more generic. It also doesn't solve the problem
> on my Win98 box where I don't even have DocBook installed. I was hoping I
> could be able to open DocBook XML files in IE without needing to install the
> DocBook dtd. Maybe it can't be done. But I haven't given up yet.
> ---
> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
> "I am, therefore I think."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mkomarinski [mailto:mkomarinski]On Behalf Of Mark Komarinski
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 1:46 PM
> To: ####@####.####
> Cc: LDP-Discuss
> Subject: Re: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
>
> My *guess* is that there's no pointer to the DTD. You
> probably want a reference like this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN'
> "/foo/docbookxml.dtd" [
>
> Since I rely on the catalog to go from the '-//OASIS' bit to the actual
> location of the DTD, I don't use it.
>
> Given that I don't use IE and Debian hasn't seen it fit to release a
> newer version of Mozilla, I can't really bang on this all that much.
>
> -Mark
>
> "Patrick K. O'Brien" wrote:
> >
> > This probably explains why MS Internet Explorer chokes on
> > LDP-Author-Guide.xml. All you get is:
> >
> > The XML page cannot be displayed
> > Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then
> > click the Refresh button, or try again later.
> >
> > A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found.
> > Line 2, Position 62
> > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN' [
> >
> > ---
> > Patrick K. O'Brien
> > Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
> > "I am, therefore I think."
> >
>
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