When I eventually got back to looking at this I realized there was a rather fundamental question that I had assumed an answer for and not tested ....
Can the Catalog be written using relative paths ? For some reason I had believed the answer was No. Possibly because that was in all the examples I'd seen. Having thought to test the issue I find that the answer is actually Yes - A catalog may use relative paths. This means that my original concern is void. I can write one catalog and hold it in Version Control with the customizations. When it is checked out it just needs pointing at and everything else works. Eventually, Richard. Richard Kerry BNCS Engineer T: +44 (0)20 82259063 M: +44 (0)7812 325518 Room EBX 301, BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London, W12 7RJ [email protected]<https://webmail.siemens-it-solutions.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=9fb20d019e3e4cb99344d708709a3177&URL=mailto%3arichard.kerry%40atos.net> uk.atos.net<https://webmail.siemens-it-solutions.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=9fb20d019e3e4cb99344d708709a3177&URL=http%3a%2f%2fuk.atos.net%2fen-uk%2f> This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Atos group liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. > > How do people manage their XML catalogs, when developing DocBook ? > > In particular when you're not working alone so need to share a catalog's > contents but with individualized base paths. And even if 'not alone' just > means there's a build server which needs a catalog of its own. > > > > Of course using a catalog gets away from individuals needing to customize > their copies of XML files. > > But then you need to put your own location(s) in the catalog, which is > otherwise the same as the ones your colleagues, and the build server, need. > > > > So do you : > > - insist all the files are in the same location on all computers ? > > - have an installation process which takes a common catalog with a place > marker and inserts the individual's path at the appropriate place (xml:base > attribute) ? (eg a simple xsl task) > > - use some feature of catalogs which I haven't noticed to make an external > reference to an absolute path ? > > - expect all the users to hand-edit the catalog to put in their own > locations ? > > - something else entirely ? > > > > > > > > > > Uncertainly, > > richard. > > > > BTW. My particular interest is in how to do this this under Windows. > (Li|U)n(i|u)x may have different answers. Or may not. > > > > > > > > Richard Kerry > > BNCS Engineer >
