Re: DOCBOOK: XHTML tables

2003-03-05 Thread ed nixon
Sorry, Norm wanted to see hundreds jump in here. I'll just try it with my own two feet. I see major usability, compatibility and support issues turning up with this discussion. What Tobias sees as trivial with respect to scripting and regular expression search and replace is simply a non-starte

Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free

2003-02-28 Thread ed nixon
David Cramer wrote: When the license manager app starts, click the "Purchase" button. It will take you to a page where you can "Purchase" Authentic for free (you have to enter an email address). They'll email you a key. I'm poking around in it now with a small doc. From what I can tell the ".sps" f

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Am I using DocBook appropriately?

2003-02-22 Thread ed nixon
Norman Walsh wrote: Yes, in the modern world there are several ways to deal with this. A little Schematron embedded in your RELAX NG would probably be the easiest way to do it. (The fact that MSV has an extension to do both at the same time is *way* cool.) Sorry for my ignorance... MSV? 'We talkin

DOCBOOK: HTML stylesheet output: abbr with title attribute value

2003-01-29 Thread ed nixon
Is there a piece of Docbook markup that gets transformed into and HTML abreviation tag? To create the following output, for example: WAI If so, which element is it and which attribute is used to carry the title attribute value across? seems like the logical choice for this example, but it's u

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Subsets anyone?

2002-10-06 Thread ed nixon
Michael Smith wrote: > "Matt G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>>From: "Steven T. Hatton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>I began to build a 'master' document for the documents I have. My >>>documents are currently books. >>This has come up, before. Personally, I'm a little skeptical that >>what p

Re: DOCBOOK: broken link

2002-09-30 Thread ed nixon
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Carlos Araya wrote: >>I can access it without problems, IE 6.0SP1 gives me a partsing error but >>I'm not too worried about that >> >>> www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/specs/cs-docbook-docbook-4.2.xml > > hmmm ... mozilla gives me an XML parsi

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: XInclude vs. external entities (Re: The best way to'include' parts...)

2002-09-11 Thread ed nixon
Ok, now some bells are ringing, faintly. Obviously this is Java code. My understanding is that XInclude is only implemented in xsltproc, etc.; is this an error on my part? Does xsltproc have URI resolver capabilities? Thanks again. ...edN Zhuravleva, Tatyana wrote: > I've been try

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: XInclude vs. external entities (Re: The best way to'include' parts...)

2002-09-11 Thread ed nixon
Norman Walsh wrote: > > If I was going to use XInclude in my own system, I'd use URNs and allow > the URI resolver to get the right filename: > > cid:-:Norman+Walsh:Document+My+File:EN"/> Sorry, Norm. Could you please give a "real" example. I am confused by the proliferation of dashes, colon

Re: DOCBOOK: RE: Simplified DocBook Q: Nested Section elements

2002-09-10 Thread ed nixon
Does this editor your using allow you to drag elements and their contents around from one place to the next (valid) location? If so you might experiment with doing that as a small exercise and experiment in figuring out the hierarchy and sequence of the elements. In addition, there may be an e

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-06 Thread ed nixon
Adam Turoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:24:09PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > > Just for kicks, how difficult would it be to refactor DocBook into > a simple core (based on Simplified DocBook, or the moral equivalent), > and implement the full DTD as multiple layers of customizations on >

Re: DOCBOOK: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-05 Thread ed nixon
Paul Grosso wrote: > At 15:36 2002 09 05 -0400, ed nixon wrote: >>Paul Grosso wrote: >>> > A big problem for me is that I still have not seen a satisfactory > explanation of the user requirement(s) that is(are) driving this > discussion. You are right, of course. I thi

Re: DOCBOOK: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-05 Thread ed nixon
Paul Grosso wrote: > At 19:01 2002 09 05 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > >> >>?Status quo? Seems to me that's how you operate now (TC that is) > > > > Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. Isn't that a little like: Let's discuss this issue by not discussing it; we'll solve it by sweeping it from und

Re: DOCBOOK: Queries on docbookx.dtd and soextblx.dtd

2002-09-02 Thread ed nixon
If I'm not mistaken, this question of yours has already been answered in an earlier response. It appears that you are using a processing tool that thinks the input you provide is SGML, not XML. The minimization error, i.e. '-' and 'o' should tell you that; there is no such construct in XML. I

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-16 Thread ed nixon
Thanks, Dave. Such a diplomat you are! See comment below: Dave Pawson wrote: > At 07:40 16/08/2002, ed nixon wrote: > > Sounds reasonable to me. If you have objections, please state them > for discussion. My only concern has been that we not break anything in terms of the existi

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-16 Thread ed nixon
I missing a point that has already been made or is simply understood. Sorry for the rain on the parade; but it seems to need saying even if it's not the idea that goes forward. Regards....edN John R. Daily wrote: > At (time_t)1029500659 ed nixon wrote: > >

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-16 Thread ed nixon
Before this is made a permanent feature, I'd like to suggest it be checked thoroughly against the "modern" browsers at least, i.e. 6 and above. (Sorry, but I've seen IE 5.x described as the "Netscape 4 of the modern browser world.") In my experience, the CSS class/value selector works OK provi

Re: DOCBOOK: Disalloingw printing of pdf-files made with docbook

2002-07-16 Thread Ed Nixon
There is a "security" feature for PDF that adds passwords and no print features. However, the only reason I know about this is because I use a PDF creating printer driver called FinePrint Pro; the manipulation of these features is built into the printer driver configuration GUI. I don't know h

Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: Website 2.2 released

2002-05-24 Thread Ed Nixon
Perhaps he's referring to the View >> Use Style menu option that will allow the viewer to change default and alternate named CSS? Jirka Kosek wrote: > Norman Walsh wrote: > > >> | * head.xsl, website-common.xsl: Output LINK elements in the >> | HEAD for prev/next/up/first/last/etc.

Re: DOCBOOK: Word template for DocBook

2002-05-06 Thread Ed Nixon
Take a look at YAWC (Yet Another Word Converter), http://www.yawcpro.com/ At 06:27 PM 06/05/2002 -0500, Malcolm Davis wrote: >Does anybody have suggestions for a DocBook Word template? >Thanks, >Malcolm

Re: DOCBOOK: e 2.71828

2002-04-09 Thread Ed Nixon
Is this the point where some ignorant soul asks why there isn't a MathML way of correctly inserting a mathematical constant into DocBook documents? I believe MathML is at minimum a switch that can be turned on with the db distribution? Is correct? thanks. ...edN At 06:15 AM 0

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-19 Thread Ed Nixon
Comments inline, below. At 06:48 AM 19/10/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Bob Stayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >| I think Karl's point is that before new elements are added >| to Docbook, that someone should convince the skeptics that the Skeptics: perhaps to some it is more an i

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Ed Nixon
At 03:42 PM 21/06/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > >| Or, alternatively, be consistent with other elements, e.g., para, >| simplepara, formalpara? > >I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting different elements for personal >names with something akin to the bibliomixed vs. biblientry content >mod

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Ed Nixon
At 01:09 PM 21/06/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: >Rather than reinvent the wheel from scratch, I wonder if there are any >sources we could borrow from. Does anyone know of a good name markup >schema? Or, alternatively, be consistent with other elements, e.g., para, simplepara, formalpara?

DOCBOOK: XML, docbook and SVG

2001-06-21 Thread Ed Nixon
I'm new to the list so the usual FAQ-type apologies. I *have* searched the archive, however, without much success. I'd like to know about using SVG in docbook documents: - where should I go to find information (other than the strictly SVG sites)? - what are the issues? - are there any implement