To whom it may concern, We are exploring the use of XMLMind XML Editor's docbook extensions for the authoring of technical documentation. As part of that effort, we are trying (so far unsuccessfully) to centralize the unmodified configuration on an http server. I am reasonably confident that the XMLMind XML Editor v2.5.1 installation on my local computer is correct because if I remove the environment variables pointing to the http server, the application starts correctly with no errors.
Here are the steps I have taken: (1) I placed a copy of the XMLMind config directory on an http server at http://<servername>/doc/_xxe-config The contents of this directory are listed in the attached file. (2) I added a file called "arena-config.list" to the directory on the http server, which contains the following two lines: docbook/docbook.xxe sdocbook/sdocbook.xxe (3) I added environment variables to my local computer: xxe_conf...@http://doc.arenasolutions.com/doc/_xxe-config/arena-config.list XXE_CATALOGS=http://doc.arenasolutions.com/doc/_xxe-config/catalog.xml After taking these three steps, when I start XMLMind on my local computer (running Windows XP), I get the following error messages: Errors found in configuration files http://doc.arenasolutions.com/doc/_xxe-config/sdocbook/sdocbook.xxe "http://doc.arenasolutions.com/doc/_xxe-config/docbook/common.incl";, line 14, column 2: invalid element "documentHook": com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.docbook.DocumentHookImpl http://doc.arenasolutions.com/doc/_xxe-config/docbook/docbook.xxe "http://doc.arenasolutions.com/doc/_xxe-config/docbook/common.incl";, line 14, column 2: invalid element "documentHook": com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.docbook.DocumentHookImpl The cause of the problem seems to be that the files "docbook.jar" and "docbook-help.jar" specified in the <load> and <help> elements of the "docbook.xxe" config file are not loading, even those these files are present on the http server. These elements look like this: <load location="docbook.jar" /> <help location="docbook_help.jar" /> I have tried modifying the value of the location attribute on these lines in the docbook.xxe file on the http server, including entering absolute URLs, entering plainly incorrect filenames, and even deleting the lines entirely. Regardless of the contents of these two lines, I get the same error message upon starting XMLMind. Interestingly, the <load> and <help> lines themselves don't generate errors, even when the content of the location attribute is clearly wrong. Any assistance or advice you can provide would be very much appreciated. Regards, Eric __________________________ Eric Larkin Arena Solutions elarkin at arenasolutions.com -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: _xxe-config-listing.txt Url: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20040112/589c5471/attachment.txt
