Fwd:Re: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on MS-DOS/Windows

2001-10-25 Thread Robert CTR Oaks
Derek, What do you use to convert the sgml text file to a publishable form such as an .rtf or a .pdf formatted file? == Bob Forward Header_ Subject:Re: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on MS-DOS/Windows Author: Derek Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

RE: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on MS-DOS/Windows

2001-10-25 Thread Phillip Shelton
But they are both written with linux directly in mind. :-/ -Original Message- From: Phillip Shelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 8:52 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on MS-DOS/Windows Try this

RE: Re-post: DOCBOOK-APPS: typographical characters encoding

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Ring
Would you mind looking at your documents in 'Plain Text' view in XMetaL and report what your typographical characters look like? Microsoft operating systems and products used to use variants of the ISO 8859 character sets; the one used in Western Europe and USA (1252,

DOCBOOK-APPS: missing id ?!?

2001-10-25 Thread camille
Hi all, I'm running through a strange behavior, on something so simple that I hesitated a lot before posting: SAXON 6.4.3 docbook-style-xsl-1.45 Thanks for your help, Camille. -- shell interaction -- $ java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o test.html test.xml \

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Error: Output character not available

2001-10-25 Thread Gershon L Joseph
Yes, that may be true. Changing my XSL and source XML to iso-8859-1 encoding resolved all issues except for one. My source was using the character entity rarr; which evidently doesn't exist in iso-8859-1 and caused the writing of the toc.hhc to exit with an error. Once I replaced them with '-'

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing id ?!?

2001-10-25 Thread Bob Stayton
From: camille [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running through a strange behavior, on something so simple that I hesitated a lot before posting: SAXON 6.4.3 docbook-style-xsl-1.45 Thanks for your help, Camille. -- shell interaction -- $ java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing id ?!?

2001-10-25 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:09 25/10/2001 +0200, camille wrote: Hi all, I'm running through a strange behavior, on something so simple that I hesitated a lot before posting: $ java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o test.html test.xml \ /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/docbook.xsl Error: no ID for

DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook?

2001-10-25 Thread Piet Seiden
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

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sun Resolver classes released

2001-10-25 Thread Eric Richardson
Bradford, Denis wrote: As noted recently, I've got the Sun resolver classes working, but not sure it's set up optimally. Is there some way to avoid hard coding full catalog pathnames in the CatalogManager.properties file? All the specs I've sifted through indicate a full pathname - sure

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: bookmarks in pdf

2001-10-25 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Kaiser Christian (SV SC RS T33) [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | But i've recognized that some bookmark items | do have some appended characters. Looks like | signs 255. These signs are just rectangulars | in this case. | | | | Is it possible that the weird character is an

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook?

2001-10-25 Thread Brendan Boyle
Try Xmlmind xml editor. http://www.xmlmind.com Its a very good WYSIWYG xml editor with inbuilt support for Docbook. The current version is a free Java download and runs on pretty much anything. It is a beta product but I've foudn it stable enough for everyday use. I've also written a very

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing id ?!?

2001-10-25 Thread Michael Westbay
Stayton-san wrote: I usually get that error reported when the processor cannot find the DTD. Without the DTD, it doesn't know which attributes are of type ID and IDREF, so the XSLT id() lookup function doesn't work. Thank you! I'd been pondering why it worked on some documents and not