Clay, Sorry for not answering earlier. I have a couple of other things to do these weeks.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:25:12PM -0700, Clay Leeds wrote: > I'd also like to resolve the error in Forrest if possible, so the rest > of this POST deals with that. > > I suspect the problem is related to the fact that properties.xml > references a dtd like this: > > <!-- > <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" > "docbookx.dtd"> > --> > > A couple of things I note here: > 1. It's commented out It is commented out so it should not have any influence. It is there so that I can uncomment and use it during editing. > 2. this is a relative/local link, but the 'docbookx.dtd' is not local > (I also tried > 'http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd' and > 'http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/' and as expected neither > works.) Because it is only used during editing I have not bothered to make it absolute. The file book.xml has an absolute path for the DTD, and that is the one that matters. > 3. fwiw, iso-num.ent is at > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/ent/iso-num.ent The dtd that one uses, should have correct relative links to the entities files. In that way they are loaded without anyone having to bother about them. > I'm not very 'up' on DocBook, so this may be how it's 'supposed' to > work. Nevertheless, → is the only thing in 'properties.xml' that > doesn't validate during the /forrest/ run (unless I replace → with > → or →). Once the document and the stylesheets have been written, nothing is very docbook specific. Only correct absolute paths or good catalogs matter at that stage. Nevertheless, docbook is a very complex DTD that uses the whole DTD machinery. I am glad it works. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
