First, thank you for reporting your problem so accurately. I hope that
my answer will be up to your question.
I think the problems comes from here:
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<group id="JKs">
<system publicId="-//JK//DTD Hi-Level-Design//EN"
^
|
+--- HERE
uri="file:///F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/DTD/hld-doc.dtd"/>
<uri name="http://dlmtest:4711/webdav/Xml4Doc/";
uri="file:///F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/"/>
</group>
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I get "Error: required attribute systemId missing." printed on the
(Linux) console because this is the grammar of the system element in XML
catalogs (excerpt from
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/specs/cs-entity-xml-catalogs-1.0.html):
------------------------------------------
<system
id = id
systemId = string
uri = uri-reference
xml:base = uri-reference />
------------------------------------------
I think this is just a typo and that you wanted in fact to add a
<public> element. If you replace this <system> by a <public>, I think
that every thing will work OK.
Notes:
* It is a very good idea to turn DTD/Schema caching *off* during this
type of experiments (as you did).
* If it takes a long time to open your template, this means that the
resolution has *failed* and that XXE is downloading the schema or the
DTD from the Web site.
* If XXE fails to load a CSS, the document is opened using a tree
view.
* Downloading a XXE configuration (DTD/Schema, CSS, etc) from an
intranet is *not* slow. In fact, it is hard to make a difference with a
configuration loaded from local disk. It could be slow if your Web
server is very slow/heavily loaded or if your XXE configuration is
located on an extranet or on the internet (or may be you have a proxy
which gets in the way).
* I don't know how to display catalog resolver error messages in the
GUI, but if you want to see them on Windows, edit xxe.bat and replace
"start javaw" by "start java".
Josef Kuhm wrote:
>
> I'm trying to distribute XMLmind (XMLmind Standard Edition code, v2
> Patch1), personal XXE configurations and additional, usage-specific addon
> DTDs, CSSs & template documents at different locations, simulating a future
> user setup for our main department.
>
> Unfortunately this setup doesn't work for me though I did my best to follow
> the directions given in the Power Users Guide.
>
> I'm working under a Windows system with the newest JDK 1.4.1_01 installed.
> For this tests I generally had XMLmind's "Enable cache" flag set to OFF.
>
> In the template XML documents im using PublicIds, so one of them looks
> something like:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE hi-level-design PUBLIC "-//JK//DTD Hi-Level-Design//EN"
> "http://dlmtest:4711/webdav/Xml4Doc/dtd/hld-doc.dtd";>
> <hi-level-design id="">
>
> <title>Hi level design of component XXX</title>
> <metadata>Some metadata </metadata>
> <abstract>
> <p>Here goes the abstract</p>
> </abstract>
> </hi-level-design>
>
> The intended distributed setup should sketch like following:
>
> Have plain vanilla XMLmind Standard Edition V2Patch1 installed in its
> own directory.
>
> Something like "DriveLetter:\XMLmind_V2R1p1"
>
> Publish our location-specific DTDs, template XML-documents and
> XMLmind-specific CSSs on a Tomcat webserver
>
> E.g.
>
> .....
> /webapps
> /webdav <--- root of managed
> directories
> /Xml4Doc
> /template <--- template XML documents go here
> /css <--- CSS
> stylesheets, not only XMLmind specific ones, go here
> /dtd <--- DTDs,
> entities and modules they use go here
>
> Make a copy of the directory structure on the webserver beginning at
> directory "Xml4Doc", onto a local drive thus copying DTDs, CSSs and
> template files,
> e.g. to: F:\UserPools\JK_Common\XML-Resources.
> Add a catalog file "catalog.xml" to the XML-Resources directory where
> the copies from the webserver have been placed.
>
> The catalog is looking something like
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE catalog
> PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
>
>
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd";>
>
> <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"
> prefer="public">
>
> <group id="JKs">
> <system publicId="-//JK//DTD Hi-Level-Design//EN"
> uri
> ="file:///F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/DTD/hld-doc.dtd"
> />
>
> <uri name="http://dlmtest:4711/webdav/Xml4Doc/";
> uri="file:///F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/"
> />
> </group>
>
> <group id="Dita">
> <public publicId="-//IBM//DTD DITA Concept//EN"
> uri
> ="file:///F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/DTD/concept.dtd"/>
>
> ..........
>
> </group>
> </catalog>
>
> The catalog should be used by XMLmind and other catalog aware XML
> tools to resolve PublicIds, other entities to the local copies and
> redirect other URIs (like a explicit CSS stylesheet specification) to
> local resources.
>
> XMLmind might not recognize the <group> and <uri> elements, but it
> should not fail due to their presence, because they are defined in
> the XML-catalog specification
>
> Create a directory on the local filesystem containing personal XXE
> configurations.
>
> e.g. F:\UserPools\JK_Common\XMLmind_AddOn_Configs
>
> In this directory there are several subdirectories holding XXE
> configurations an a configuration list file
> "AddOn_Configs.list" listing all contained XXE configurations.
>
> Having a "Dita" subdirectory, a excerpt of the
> "AddOn_Configes.list" file might look like:
>
> Dita/ditabase.xxe
> Dita/reference.xxe
> Dita/task.xxe
> Dita/topic.xxe
> Dita/hld-doc.xxe
>
> And an excerpt of a specific, personal XXE configuration file
> looks something like
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>
> <cfg:configuration name="HiLevel Design"
> xsi:schemaLocation
> ="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/configuration
> ../configuration/xsd/configuration.xsd"
> xmlns:xsi
> ="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
> xmlns:cfg
> ="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/configuration";>
>
> <cfg:detect>
> <cfg:and>
> <cfg:dtdPublicId substring
> ="true">Hi-Level-Design</cfg:dtdPublicId>
> <cfg:rootElementNamespace xsi:nil
> ="true"></cfg:rootElementNamespace>
>
>
> <cfg:rootElementLocalName>hi-level-design</cfg:rootElementLocalName>
> </cfg:and>
> </cfg:detect>
>
> <cfg:dtd systemId
> ="http://dlmtest:4711/webdav/Xml4Doc/dtd/hld-doc.dtd";
> publicId="-//JK//DTD Hi-Level-Design//EN" />
>
> <cfg:css name="Hi Level Design style" location
>
> ="file:///F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/css/hld-doc.css"
>
> />
>
> <cfg:template name="Hi Level Design document" location
>
> ="file:///F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/template/hld-doc.xml"
>
> />
>
> <cfg:saveOptions encoding="UTF-8" />
> </cfg:configuration>
>
> Now, in order for this setup to work, two additional actions have to be
> taken:
>
> add another catalog entry for file "F:
> \UserPools\JK_Common\XML-Resources\catalog.xml" in the "DTD catalogs"
> pane in the "Open" tab of the "options" panel.
>
> start a command prompt, set environment variable XXE_CONFIG like "set
> xxe_conf...@file:///
> F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XMLmind_AddOn_Configs/AddOn_Configs.list;+"
> and start XMLmind in the command prompt window from the Batch file.
>
> What happens:
>
> XMLmind is starting ok. Opening a new file with "Menubar/File/New", I
> see my personal specific document templates in addition to the ones
> coming with XMLmind. This means, the distributed configuration setup
> works in principle.
>
> As long as the webserver "dlmtest" runs, opening a new "Hi level
> design document" by using the template, works ok, though it takes a
> considerable time to open the template.
>
> From the messages in the status line you can see that XMLmind is
> loading the template XML document from the local file resource though
> it could be doing it from the webserver:
>
> Loading document
> "file:/F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/template/hld-doc.xml"
>
> The other messages showing up are flipping by so quickly that I was
> unable to read or even capture one of them (a message file .... the
> messages issued during a XMLmind session would be a great thing in
> this case)
>
> Finally I get a styled display of the template document using my
> specific CSS stylesheet, the one I specified int the .XXE
> configuration file.
>
> This means that the catalog resolution seems to work ok:
>
> When the webserver is not operating, thus simulating offline working
> mode, I'm getting the same "Loading document....." message in the
> status line. But then a error panel pops up, saying:
>
> 'Cannot open file
> "file:/F:/UserPools/JK_Common/XML-Resources/template/hld-doc.xml"
> Connection refused: connect'
>
> It looks to me as if there is some problem with loading the CSS style
> sheet, specified in the .XXE config file with a file-uri pointing to some
> general location in the filesystem.
>
> I also tried a traditional setup, using additional directories under
> XMLmind's own configuration directory using the same DTDs and CSSs and
> appropriately adapted XXE config files. With this setup there is no
> problem at all. Opening a new XML document with one of my personal
> templates is much much speedier than with the distributed setup.
>
> I'd very much appreciate a response telling me that the intended setup is a
> valid one and perhaps pointing me to some fine grain detail that I
> overlooked. And if everything is ok conceptually, perhaps it turns out to
> be a bug.
