Thanks for all the feedback to my orig post. It turned out that XML Spy is fine, but overly helpful, which threw me for a loop. What happened was that being the newbie that I am, I had created a document with <chapter> and <title> elements but without any content like <para> in those chapters. I used XML Spy in the Enhanced Grid View and it automatically inserts a <calloutlist> with an accompanying <callout> when I created a <chapter> element.
As I decided to save my document at that stage I got an error message regarding the validity of my documents as I had not specified anything for the arearefs attribute. Imagine the Newbies surprise at this stage (arearefs, where did that one come from?) of the process. XML Spy is nice, but I would have preferred something like a message telling me that I had forgotten to insert some required elements instead of force feeding my document with <calloutlist>. Regards, Piet. -----Original Message----- From: Piet Seiden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25. oktober 2001 22:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook? I'm starting out with XML, trying to convert existing documents using the DocBook XML DTD (4.1.2). As editor I have tried using XML Spy 4.0 but have not been able to validate anything, not even simple sample documents. Before this drives me insane, I would like to inquire here, if there is a validating XML parser known to work well with the DocBook XML DTD. The platform should be either Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD or Linux. Thanks in advance Piet. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
