On 03/29/2011 01:13 AM, Trevor John Thompson wrote:
> On 2011 Mar 28, at 10:15, Hussein Shafie wrote:
>
>> On 03/28/2011 04:57 PM, Trevor John Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you for your prompt response.
>>> I have followed your recommendations, to no effect.
>>
>> Really strange.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I notice that the tiny triangle in the upper left corner of the selection
>>> flashes red.
>>
>> This means that the caret is inside the text node of the literal
>> element, but the caret cannot be displayed normally because the literal
>> element is hidden.
>>
>> This would correspond to the following CSS snippet:
>> ---
>> literal {
>> display: none;
>> }
>> ---
>>
>>
>>
>>> Might this be a clue?
>>
>> Not really.
>>
>> This seems to indicate that docbook.css or any of the CSS stylesheets
>> (e.g. docbook1.imp) it includes is damaged.
>>
>> Unless you have a weird customization of the DocBook configuration
>> floating around, hidden somewhere (that is, not inside directory
>> $HOME/Library/Application Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor4/), you should
>> perform an fsck on your filesystem. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck
>>
>> However [1] I don't know how this is done on the Mac and [2] I thought
>> that with the modern journaled filesystems, such fsck was no longer needed.
>
>
> I have no customization whatsoever, and my filesystem is fine (according to
> 'Disk Utility').
> The CSS stylesheets look OK to me, but i would like to run them through a
> verifier.
The CSS stylesheets bundled with XMLmind XML Editor are valid, otherwise
XXE would have reported some warnings.
> Would you know of a tool to do that on local files, rather than URLs and web
> sites?
I don't think this would be useful because as I've said it above, the
DocBook CSS stylesheets are correct. I mean that the fact that they
display strange things does not imply that they are incorrect.
I'm sorry not to be able to help you more, but there is no way for us to
solve a problem we cannot reproduce here at our offices.
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