docbook: DocBook XML HOWTOs in the LDP collection
Subject:
Re: DocBook XML HOWTOs in the LDP collection
From:
"Jim Weller" ####@####.####
Date:
31 May 2001 00:05:56 -0000
Message-Id: <030801c0e965$ca4d5bd0$4b86e589@sliver>
On the XML note. openjade-1.3 does *not* like URLS in the system identifier.
I updated my 'DocBook XML 4.1.2 QuickStart'
(http://www.jimweller.net/jim/dbxmlqs/index.html). You can get the XML
source here (http://www.jimweller.net/jim/dbxmlqs/dbxmlqs.xml).
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: DocBook XML HOWTOs in the LDP collection
> On May 21, 10:17pm, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Subject: Re: DocBook XML HOWTOs in the LDP collection
> > On 21 May 2001 15:48:41 -0400, Dan Scott wrote:
> > > Hmm, I decided to expand my DocBook XML processing with Xalan
> > > experiments to include the other HOWTOs in the LDP collection
> > > that use DocBook XML (the XML-RPC HOWTO and the JavaStation HOWTO).
> > >
> > > It turns out that both of those HOWTOs are missing the system
> > > identifier; that is, they both declare:
> > >
> > > <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> > > [ ... entities ... ]>
> > >
> > > rather than:
> > >
> > > <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> > > "http://docbook.org/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
> > > [ ... entities ... ]>
> >
> > Ugh, yes, the system identifier is required. You may find that
> > processing is faster if you keep a copy of the DTD locally, although
> > it makes that system identifier not sure to work elsewhere...
>
> There's another way to do this that works quite nicely - keeping the
> URI-style system identifier in the document, a publisher can
> specify "OVERRIDE YES" in a referenced catalog file - this triggers
> the use of a local instance.
>
> In fact, Dan (Scott) and I used this in publishing his XML document
> as part of the LDP collection.
>
> --
> r,
> Ferg
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