Harry Goldschmitt wrote: > I'm documentation coordinator for the IPCop open source project > <http://www.ipcop.org>. We write our documentation in DocBook XML. It's > been suggested that we recommend your XMLmind Personal Edition to our > authors.
Please take the time to read this: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/limitations.html "XMLmind XML Editor (XXE) cannot be used to edit the physical structure of an XML document (entities, CDATA sections, marked sections)." This implies that XMLmind XML Editor is generally *rejected* by authors used to write XML with text editors or with XML ``programmer's editors''. > I've downloaded copies to my OSX, Windows and Linux machines and it > seems to fit the bill. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to easily > modify the catalog.xml, as required by IPCop. It seems that the only > way to do this is with an xxe addon. Is this right? Right. * You don't need to modify the bundled catalog.xml. (Doing this would be hard to maintain for you) * You need to customize the DocBook configuration to make it use your customized DocBook DTD (well, that's what I suppose). * Then, optionally, you may want to package this custom configuration+DTD+catalog as an add-on. An add-on is simply a zip file containing some files + an XML manifest. Creating such an add-on takes 5mn. > If so, can you > point me to some doc on how to do this. > > I realize I don't deserve support as a personal edition user, but use by > our dozen or so authors and our several dozen translators might get you > some pay for business. No problem. Rather than explaining how to do this (which is already explained here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/dtd_example.html and here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customizing.html), I would prefer that you would point me to a Web page explaining to your authors what they need to produce in terms of DocBook documentation. After reading this Web page, I'll send you a ready-to-use add-on.
