discuss: SGML frustration
Subject:
Re: SGML frustration
From:
Gregory Leblanc ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jul 2001 16:41:19 -0000
Message-Id: <995560817.31333.2.camel@grego1.cu-portland.edu>
On 19 Jul 2001 12:04:52 -0400, Wade Hampton wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Sorry for the frustrated post, but I am trying to
> go back and do some linuxdoc document generation
> (been about 2 years). I have a howto I need to
> update and some documentation for a customer I
> am writing and linuxdoc seems a good fit, if I can
> get it working properly as I need html and a
> nice printed book-like format (ps or pdf).
>
> I have the samples: big-howto-template.sgml and
> big-howto-template-ld.sgml.
>
> My system is RH 7.1 with rpms installed for:
> docbook-dtd3.0, 3.1, 4.1
> docbook-utils-pdf-0.6-13
> docbook-style-dsssl-1.59-10
> sgml-tools-1.0.9-9
> sgml--common-0.5-5
> psgml-1.2.1-13
>
> I have the following (probably dumb) questions:
>
> 1) When running sgml2html big--howto-template.sgml:
> a) cannot generate system identifier for public text
> "-//OASIS//DTD...."
This is caused by using sgml2html rather than db2html (or docbook2html).
Give it a shot with docbook2* instead.
> b) I get a lot of errors about "element "IMAGEOBJECT" undefined"
> for most of the elements.
Yep, same thing, sgml2html doesn't know about this kind of document.
Give it a shot with the db2* tools, and let's see what that fixes. If
things aren't hunky-dory afterwards, let us know, and we'll see what we
turn up.
Greg
