Thanks! I'll probably alter the grammar since it's not the way I'd be publishing the document. I wouldn't actually publish a document with invalid XML without preprocessing it.
I'll upgrade to 4.5 for other reasons as soon as I pay my quarterly taxes and figure out if I have any money left. -K On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Kathryn Huxtable wrote: >> In XMLEditer version 4.4 I can create a DocBook 4.5 document with elements >> such as >> >> <ulink >> url="http://myhost/myproject/${project.version}/usage.html";>usage</ulink> >> >> I have a post-processing phase after converting to HTML that replaces the >> ${...} element with my project version, or whatever. >> >> When I create a DocBook 5+ document, however, the preferred conversion for >> this, according to the DocBook docs at >> >> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Db5Tools.html#Db5UnivLinking >> >> is >> >> <link >> xlink:href="http://myhost/myproject/${project.version}/usage.html";>usage</link> >> >> I have three problems. >> >> 1) At least in version 4.4 adding xlink:href attributes to a link element is >> not allowed. I can create them externally and open the file and all is well. >> >> 2) In version 4.4 the linkend attribute is required, but is not present in >> the DocBook5 doc. Again, if I create the element externally and open the >> file, it is accepted as valid. >> >> 3) This is the biggest problem. The "$" and and curly brace characters are >> seen as invalid by the validation mechanism and are flagged as such. There >> is also no way to enter the text manually. Escaping the text using %24 for >> the "$", for instance, does not work because it is never expanded and my >> Velocity macro processor doesn't detect it. >> >> Are there workarounds for any of these problems? Are any of them different >> in version 4.5 of XMLEditor? > > --> DocBook 5 is pretty different from DocBook 4. For example, with > DocBook 5, the link element *must* have a linkend attribute *or* a > xlink:href attribute, but not both attributes. > > Two different methods to create a link to an external target in a > Docbook 5 document. > > Method #1 (Recommended) > * Select some text. > * Click the "Convert to link" toolbar button. > * Select the "link[xlink:href]" item from the menu displayed by the button. > * Use the Attributes tool to specify the value of the xlink:href attribute. > > Method #2 (Low-level) > * Select some text. > * Use Edit|Convert (Ctrl-T) to convert the selected text to an element. > * Select "link" from the element list. > * In the Attributes tool, right-click on attribute "linkend" and select > "Force Removal" from the menu. > * Use the Attributes tool to specify the value of the xlink:href attribute. > > > > --> About "${project.version}" in the value of the xlink:href attribute. > > The DocBook 5 grammar specifies that the type of the xlink:href > attribute is xsd:anyURI. A substring like "${project.version}" is not > allowed in an URI. Therefore the error reported by XMLmind XML Editor is > legitimate. > > You can either ignore the error > OR > modify the DocBook 5 grammar to replace "anyURI" by "string". > > Excerpts of XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook5/rng/V5.0/docbook.rng > --- > <define name="db.xlink.href.attribute"> > <attribute name="xlink:href"> > <a:documentation>Identifies a link target with a > URI</a:documentation> > <data type="anyURI"/> > </attribute> > --- > > > > --> No need to upgrade to XMLmind XML Editor v4.5.2. Doing this would > not help you. > > > > > -- > XMLmind XML Editor Support List > xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
