Thank you very much for your response. I'm considering to get rid of the error-prone DOCTYPEs once for all. For anybody interested on the list, here I found a patch for Xerces which should implicitly recognize xml:ids as IDs.
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1113 On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> wrote: > Petr Nalevka wrote: > > > > I have a little issue with XML Mind when I declare DOCTYPE with DocBook > > 5.0 (<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V5.0//EN" > > "http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/dtd/docbook.dtd";>) > > > > First of all, why am I actually declaring DOCTYPE with a DocBook 5.0 > > document? The reason is I like to use XInclude with XPointer. But Xerces > > only supports DTD determined shorthand ids. > > That's right. But DocBook 5 uses the xml:id attribute to specify the ID > of an element, so a DTD (or any kind of schema) is not strictly needed > to properly process XInclude elements. You should send an RFE to Xerces > requesting it to support xml:id (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/). > > > > > So I actually attach DOCTYPE > > and use an XML Catalog. > > > > I found a strange issue with XML Mind when the DOCTYPE is present. If I > > create a new section it gets created without an empty title and I need > > to add the title manually. If I detele the DOCTYPE sections are being > > inserted correctly with titles. > > > > Any idea? > > > > Yes, I've added: > > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V5.0//EN" > "http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/dtd/docbook.dtd";> > > to a DocBook 5 document and managed to reproduce the problem you describe. > > The DocBook 5 DTD is not in sync with the DocBook 5 RELAX NG schema (the > normative schema of DocBook 5). The DocBook 5 DTD does not require a > section element to have a title child element. Therefore, the behavior > of XXE seems correct. > > You can check this by selecting a section (in a DocBook 5 document > having a <!DOCTYPE>) and then by pressing Shift-F1 (Help|Show Content > Model). See attached screenshot. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20090113/2239c26d/attachment.htm
