discuss: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
Subject:
Re: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
From:
Mark Komarinski ####@####.####
Date:
21 Mar 2001 20:00:17 -0000
Message-Id: <3AB9084C.D41C1980@valinux.com>
Hmm...maybe the URL is in case the catalog doesn't have the information
about the public identifier, it can look elsewhere. Which means that
you should include the URL all the time, as it would be the best
location for it.
-Mark
"Patrick K. O'Brien" wrote:
>
> Read my message again. The prolog I gave (which points to the oasis-open.org
> website) works even when I'm *not* connected to the Internet because
> Emacs/PSGML knows to look elsewhere. The bit about testing it on a plane was
> tongue-in-cheek.
>
> The variations you gave for the system id would work, but as you noted are
> machine specific or require a local web server. Therefore it seems better to
> me to point to the OASIS site for the dtd and rely on the specific tool to
> be smart enough to look for a local copy of the DTD file.
>
> Note that your Windows style example is not quite valid in that the path
> still needs forward slashes. So it would have to be:
>
> c:/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
>
> This is what I have used to look at xml files in Internet Explorer on my
> Windows machine, but I don't like the fact that I have to modify the xml
> file. If someone knows a way to tell IE where to look for a DTD, that would
> be most useful.
>
> HTH, Pat.
>
> ---
> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
> "I am, therefore I think."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Peck ####@####.####
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: 'Patrick K. O'Brien '; 'LDP-Discuss '
> Subject: RE: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
>
> Would a HOSTS file on the local machine pointing to a local mirror help
> while you are 'on the plane'?
>
> 127.0.0.1 oasis-open.org
>
> OR this?
>
> <!DOCTYPE article
> PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> "http://local/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
>
> With one, you would have to remember to redo your HOSTS file when you
> reconnected, with the other, you would have to redo the doc header before
> final release and with both you would have to have a web server loaded
> locally, but don't we all have that? :)
>
> or would this work while you were 'off the net'?
> <!DOCTYPE article
> PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> "c:\docbook\xml\4.1.2\docbookx.dtd">
>
> or Linux/UNIX equiv path name convention.
> Just curious while trying to figure this out.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Steven Peck ####@####.####
> http://leaf.blkmtn.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick K. O'Brien
> To: LDP-Discuss
> Sent: 3/21/2001 10:10 AM
> Subject: RE: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
>
> I think this is going to end up being tool specific. For example, I'm
> using
> a pretty generic XEmacs/PSGML setup on a Linux box that is NOT usually
> connected to the Internet. XEmacs/PSGML has no problem with the
> following
> prolog. Instead of going to the Internet, it parses against the DTD
> stored
> on my local machine. (Though I haven't tested it from a plane, yet.
> *grin*)
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article
> PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
> <article>
> </article>
>
> ---
> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
> "I am, therefore I think."
>
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