docbook: URL not supported by this version
Subject:
Re: URL not supported by this version
From:
Saqib Ali ####@####.####
Date:
28 Oct 2003 15:17:02 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.55.0310280658430.25427@sjgcs1.stsj.seagate.com>
Hello Tabatha,
(i think) xmlproc_parse just check if the document is well-formed or not.
It does not validate against the docbook DTD to see if the tags being used
in the document are valid or not. (correct me if I am wrong)
there is xmlproc_val which I haven't used.
In Peace,
Saqib Ali
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Tabatha Marshall wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:51, Sarah Haff wrote:
> > I am trying use the onsgmls to validate the a document against the DocBook
> > XML DTD v4.2 using onsgmls
> >
> > #onsgmls -v
> > onsgmls:I: "OpenSP" version "1.5"
>
> I checked my version (on RH8) and mine's even worse: 1.3.4!
>
> > Here is my doctype decleration:
> > <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
> > "http://docbook.org/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
>
> > If I use a system path instead of a URL, everything works fine.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to make it work with URLs?
>
> Is it possible for you to use xml tools instead (maybe something is
> already installed on your system for that)? When I check xml documents,
> rather than onsgmls, I use xmlproc_parse (included in RH8).
>
> Syntax: xmlproc_parse file.xml
> If you have multiple files for the book: xmlproc_parse *.xml
>
> The command will find the dtd in the first file, and seems to be fine
> with the url to docbookx.dtd. This is much handier than onsgmls for me
> when working on a book that has other files included as entities in the
> main xml file. I've always found that with onsgmls I have to paste in
> the doctype definition at the beginning if I'm working with a
> multiple-file book. Big pain.
>
> Hope that helps a little!
>
> Tab
>
>
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