I am a Debian/Unix/Emacs/SGML newbie. I just installed a stable potato system last month, and installed the debiandoc-sgml package last week. I'm starting to get a little more comfortable with emacs. Anyway, I have attempted to validate the SGML documents I was working on and ran into a few difficulties. Perhaps someone could enlighten me.
Within the emacs sgml mode, the docs say I can use C-c C-v to validate the sgml in the document I'm working on. When I do, it errors out saying it can't find the program sgmls. I tried looking for that package with dpkg, but as far as I can tell nsgmls has replaced it. How do I tell emacs it has the wrong package name? When I run nsgmls from the shell on the file in question, I get buku errors regarding closing of tags. I suspect that's because the files on which I'm working (e.g. boot-floppies/documentation/en/rescue-boot.sgml) are not standalone documents, but are inserted as sections into the larger boot-floppies/documentation/install.sgml document. These docs don't have a DTD section, so I think nsgmls is using a generic SGML DTD to validate rather than a debiandoc DTD. The install.sgml document has a DTD reference; if I'm running nsgmls on the section document, how can I tell it where to find the DTD? Are there even more useful tools lying around for working on sgml? -- Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
