Tim, What tool are you validating with?
I'm able to validate chapters using jing without a problem, and I also edit them in emacs/nxml more without any error messages. Best Regards, Richard Hamilton On Mar 28, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Tim Arnold wrote: > hi, > My documents are usually standalone chapters. > I get an error when I validate against the V5 relaxng that says > "Expecting element set, got chapter, line 2" > > From the spec, it appears that a standalone file has to start with a set, > book, section, etc, but not a chapter: > http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/rng/docbookxi.rnc > > Is that intentional? > I eventually put the chapters together as a book, but I like to validate the > chapters sequentially. > > thanks, > --Tim Arnold > > ------- XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net hamil...@xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org