OK, Just to be sure I uninstalled everything, including the old xsdvalid I had installed in the same folder as my xxe 1.3. Then I installed version 2 again, using the InstallEverywhere installer as before. I still got the same start-up problem. The error I get is identical to that reported by Lukas Gruetzmacher. If I edit xxe.bat, then I can start using that.
I installed the program as myself, not as Administrator. The other problem I reported with the use of catalogs seems to have disappeared; I can open/create docbook documents even when I'm offline. If it shows up again I'll be back... Thanks for your help so far Kevin Flynn -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 4. september 2002 17:36 To: Kevin Flynn Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: XMLmind XML Editor V2.0 Beta 1 Kevin Flynn wrote: > > not quite sure about the release numbering here... I have java 1.4.0_01 > (from Sun) installed and assumed that was what you meant. Yes. (I've fixed the release numbering on our site.) > I actually got it to run by modifying "dist" in the supplied xxe.bat file to > point to my installation folder and running the bat file, so I guess I maybe > need to set some environment variable or classpath? There is no environment variable or classpath to set: just Java up and running. Such environment variables would have been documented if they were needed. Which version have you downloaded? Is it the zip or tar.gz file? In such case, you have to edit xxe.bat to change the "dist" variable. This is documented in section "Manual Install on Windows". If you have downloaded one of the 2 setup.exe, you should not need to use xxe.bat but instead use the "XMLmind XML Editor" entry in the Program Group created by the installer. > I have another problem, too: > > I tried to create a docbook article, using file, new, and it failed because > it couldn't access the original version of the DTD (I was working on a > laptop off-line). Once I tried on-line, it was OK. Surely the point is that > it uses the local copy? I notice that in the delivered catalog.xml, "prefer" > is set to "public". Can this be set to something else? No. You are not supposed to face such gory details. Please, start XXE and tell me if the "Options" dialog box, "Open" tab, references the catalog.xml bundled with the distrib. If this is the not the case (I don't know why), try to use the Reset button. The list "DTD Catalogs" must absolutely reference this file if you want to be able to work off line. Frankly, I don't understand why you are having this massive amount of trouble with a program which seems to run out of the box when tested on any of our Windows machines.
