Re: [docbook-apps] Escape DTD snippet

2011-01-06 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Susanne Wunsch writes: > I searched for a possibility to quote DTD snippets that aren't parsed > but integrated "as is". I didn't find some appropriate hints. > > Use CDATA marked sectionsv (this is a general SGML/XML feature): Your exam

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: writing a condensed form of docbook

2003-03-15 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Markus Spath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> i like to write my documents and manuals in condensed >> form, and it would be nice to quickly to go from that to final docbook. >> > > Since you stay with the xml-syntax anyway This sounds like a arguable requirement... If

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: comments on "Using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets"

2002-12-30 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't do any automated catalog management I don't believe in this kind of magic ;-) Question: where shall we install the TEI P4 DTD? One and the same is used for SGML and XML (the same is basically true for DocBook and the DocBook DSSSL stylesheet

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: comments on "Using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets"

2002-12-30 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Adam DiCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ideally the file locations should comply with the LSB/XML standard, > although I can no longer find that standard (!! maybe it's dead?). The SGML "standard" (better: proposal or recommendation) once was added to the LSB (around version 1.0) as an appendi

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: comments on "Using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets"

2002-12-30 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Adam DiCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. It's is because I always get it right. :) If you tried to load the > SGML ISO entities from and XML doc, that means you're using the wrong > public identifier. Yes. There is a new problem: The TEI group use the same identifiers for SGML and XML ;-(

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XInclude doesn't validate with xmllint

2002-10-05 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should really start accepting that URL can be used as identifiers > like any other string, sigh ... It can, but a SYSTEM identifiers is not canonical (= it is not fixed). Let's hope somebody will finish the LSB some time soon regarding XML. Sc

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XInclude doesn't validate with xmllint

2002-10-03 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Peter Ring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First I'd like to lobby for keeping your local copies of DTDs and > stylesheets as a mirror or cache of the canonical URLs. There is no such thing like a canonical URL. Use a catalog and map PUBLIC identifiers to local resources. Note, PSGML implements

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Uniq values of "ID" attributes

2002-09-24 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Probably. Or just add a dummy chapter with all missing IDs to the >>respective document (cf. David Megginson's book on XML). > Its presently my bedside table reading.. chapter reference please, > I haven't got to it. I'm talking about "Structuring XML

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Uniq values of "ID" attributes

2002-09-24 Thread Karl Eichwalder
[I'm escaping to the apps list] Vitaly Ostanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Yes, but for separated documents we must to use: >>>id="full.path.with.sub.parts.of.set.document-name.pgs.ex.1" >>>for it be unique. >> Not if you make the id's relate to the document subject? >> id values do not need

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Announce: DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.50.0

2002-03-22 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Camille Bégnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Up to now, each new release of a DSSSL or XSL stylesheets had its > corresponding RPM package but with the same name (docbook-style-dsssl > resp. docbook-style-xsl). Therefore installing a new version would > overwrite the previous one. Not necessaril

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Editors and IDREFs

2002-01-22 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Markus Hoenicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > have a look at RefDB (http://refdb.sourceforge.net). I have two "concerns" about refdb: . You're forced to use one and only database system (unfortunately not PostgreSQL). There are generic frameworks like libgda/GNOME-DB, and there are

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: "Abbreviated" DocBook

2002-01-10 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DocBook is too dam verbose, providing an entry for just about > everything under the sun. Try to enable SGML minimization features; but it looks as if you want to write an m4-to-xml macro system :) > Although you may disagree with me, it is so verbos

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [szucker@mac.com: Re: docbook.dcl related errorswith openjade]

2001-11-23 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Sasha Zucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CATALOG "/sw/share/sgml/dsssl/docbook-dsssl-nwalsh/catalog" > CATALOG "/sw/share/sgml/dtd/docbook/catalog" > CATALOG "/sw/share/sgml/entities/iso8879/catalog" > CATALOG "/sw/share/sgml/openjade-1.3/dsssl/catalog" > CATALOG "/sw/share/xml/dtd/docbookx/cat

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Catalog dor DocBook and URI for the XSL stylesheets

2001-08-24 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Kevin Conder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please consider using another site. Sourceforge uses a strange > port-redirection scheme that doesn't work well with corporate > firewalls. Thus far I didn't encounter this problem. Another reason: the docbook community doesn't "own" the propose

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Solution to funky TOCs in HTML Help...

2001-08-13 Thread Karl Eichwalder
"Bradford, Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to my XSLT book, XSLT has lots of ways to control the > generation of white-space nodes - elements like space, preserve-space, > and strip-space elements - in contrast to HTML where the spec is not > very precise, Rules are precise but "d

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: db2latex

2001-07-25 Thread Karl Eichwalder
"Sebastian Rahtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been around this world for a good few years, and I have only > once met anyone who used architectural forms. Unless you can show me > otherwise, I put it to you that AFs are pure theory. I tried it along David Megginson's book 'Structuring X

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: db2latex

2001-07-25 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Michel Goossens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DC promised to have a look at it a few weeks back... I agree that for > a general DTD writing the TeX macro code necessary to support it might > not be a good investment. Note, such an approach is _never_ required. You can use Architectural Forms Pr

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Jadetex and Turkish

2001-07-16 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Togan Muftuoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > db2tex -j "-b iso-8859-9" -s > /usr/share/sgml/docbook-toys/suse-both.dsl ornek.sgml Please, send me a small example file ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that jadetex 2.20 isn't maintained anymore..

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML

2001-07-14 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Dan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > H interesting command. Definitely looks like it could have helped > me. No, I didn't know about it. The only thing is that the one on my > system (Red Hat Linux 6.2) converts all tags to UPPERCASE, which is exactly > NOT what I want to do. Perhaps

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Non SGML Character Number?

2001-06-08 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, but I've never had any problems so far. As long as you're using Emacs it doesn't matter that much; PSGML assumes Reference Concrete Syntax without limits. PSGML has it's own way to provide the correct defaults for XML (hardcoded). Using nsgmls the

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Non SGML Character Number?

2001-06-08 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable contains (the newline characters are just > here for readability): Don't use SGML_CATALOG_FILES. Using SGML_CATALOG_FILES without knowing what you do is asking for trouble :) > /usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbk30:/usr/share/

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: What are the steps to convert to DocBook XML?

2001-03-19 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Sebastian Rahtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jade can happily process XML files. switching to XML is a win every > time, as you can use all the old tools, *and* the new ones ...and you're force to code more verbose: you'll have to quote attributes, you'll loose some minimazation features and --

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: PDF and single file HTML output

2001-03-02 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Bernd Kreimeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > db2html has no --help, but there is a comment in the > script: Did you try db2xxx on SuSE Linux? ;^) > # it's best to make a new directory with several html files in it > #cat $* | jade -d $DB_STYLESHEET -t sgml -V nochunks > $TMPFN tux:~ # db2h

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Modifying parameters in the DocBook stylesheets

2001-02-28 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Follow-ups to docbook-apps, please] ;-) > / "Juan R. Migoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | You can't avoid to modify something if you want to customize > | your stylesheet. Other thing is that you might avoid to modify > | the original dsl

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Simple example to generate a TOC in a DVI and aPDFfile

2001-01-05 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Jirka Kosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. > - Get LaTeX source from DocBook and include hyperref package. > - process it with pdftex -> you will get PDF file with bookmarks [...] > Ad 2. If you want to get LaTeX source from DocBook, there is > experimental stylesheet > http://www.infres.en

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Problem getting backslashes

2001-01-05 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Les Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My environment: > > SuSE Linux 7.0 [...] > i.e. backslashes are produced as dashes from jade, which isn't quite > what I need. Also the RTF output is also correct - i.e. the problem > really seems to be restricted to the jadetex system (or its > confi