See below > I think whatever approach we end up with for this issue, it will be > necessary to support editing in XmlMind. > > Rather than parameterizing the reference to the DTD (which from your > commit below looks like it's turning out to be problematic anyway) > perhaps another option might to use an svn:externals property. This > allows us to create the equivalent of symbolic links in each directory.
almost.. > For example, given: > > a/foo > a/b/bar > > if you wanted to reference "foo" relative to a/b, you would create an > svn:external property for a/b with a value "../foo foo" The websites[1][2] and help file [3] I've been reading specifically say that relative paths do not work (as source). > Might be worth experimenting with? I don't think so. The svn:properties seems to me to still just be a method of merging other subversion repository locations into an existing managed tree. I don't see how it can be used to ensure that a resource is available at a known (fixed) location. The fact that I can't get the maven docbook plugin to parse the text in the <!DOCBOOK ...> header is the killer. So I come back to one of two suggestions: 1) Keep the docbook references relative to the trunk directory. 2) Specify an acceptable global directory (like /tmp/isis) and run a script to ensure that the /trunk/resources/docbook-xml-4.5 directory is copied there. Option 2 will ensure that all references can find it in the same place. Option 1 requires that scripts are run from trunk before documentation gets built. Otherwise, can anyone recommend a parsing script that can be used easily toggle between either of the two definitions? a: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "file:/tmp/isis/resources/docbook-xml-4.5/docbookx.dtd"> b: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";> When I open any of the docbook files with XML Mind, e.g. trunk/alternatives/remoting/src/docbkx/guide/isis-remoting.xml XMLMind didn't seem affected by the relative path to the DTD? Regards, Kevin [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html [2] http://beerpla.net/2009/06/20/how-to-properly-set-svn- svnexternals-property-in-svn-command-line/ [3] svn help propset svn:externals
