I'm sorry that I don't have the solution to this
question.  I just wanted to thank Dave Viner for
working through some of these Forrest issues for
the rest of us.

When I started to get setup to add entries to the
"related" page, I heeded Vladimir's note and downloaded
Forrest to rig the entire apparatus.  After that
I went into a tailspin trying to get everything
working together.  I thought I was the only one so
far "into the woods" with Forrest (lol)

I just wanted to add a few hrefs to a page, but then
I wanted to test everything would work right afterwards.

As a result of my frustration I actually setup a
fresh linux box to offload all of the project-related
stuff from the box I use for my main work -  so the
time has not been completely wasted.

In the process, I began to wonder whether there is
some kind of testing matrix used for this (or other)
open source projects.

The config items that I have some latitude with are:

1) Java DK - version, platform
2) Browser - version, platform (for site doc)

theoretically the browser ver should not matter:->
however, browsers are starting to care about doctype
tags ...  i know dave raggett's tidy tool does ...


testing universe:
This would clearly be a huge, n-dimensional matrix if
it were worked out in detail.  However, I am hoping
that there is a notion of "core" platform support, or
maybe better - some group-accessible log/matrix where
we can post test results

(I know, I know ... thank me for volunteering to create
one...  Let me know.  I'm still trying to restore myself
from delinquent status on 3 test items but I am determined
to get these done.  very soon dammit! :)

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Dave Viner wrote:

> Hi,
>       I noticed the forrest documentation at
> http://xml.apache.org/forrest/primer.html recommends using <!DOCTYPE
> document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.1//EN" "document-v11.dtd">
> and letting the catalog file resolve the actual location of the dtd file.
> ("The exact local location of the DTD for validation purposes is obtained by
> the entity resolver evaluating the mapping scheme as defined in the catalog
> file.")
>
>       When I run the forrest command line program from xml-xindice directory, 
> it
> works fine.  But when I use XML Spy to edit the files (or any other xml
> editor), they can not validate the documents.  I believe this is because it
> can't find the catalog file.  Does anyone know how to configure an XML
> editor (preferably XML Spy) to use an XML catalog?
>
> thanks
> dave
>

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