RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook ?SOLVED

["Seiden, Piet" <ps@db.dk>]

Thanks for all the feedback to my orig post.

It turned out that XML Spy is fine, but overly helpful, which threw me for a
loop. What happened was that being the newbie that I am, I had created a
document with <chapter> and <title> elements but without any content like
<para> in those chapters. I used XML Spy in the Enhanced Grid View and it
automatically inserts a <calloutlist> with an accompanying <callout> when I
created a <chapter> element.

As I decided to save my document at that stage I got an error message
regarding the validity of my documents as I had not specified anything for
the arearefs attribute. Imagine the Newbies surprise at this stage
(arearefs, where did that one come from?) of the process.

XML Spy is nice, but I would have preferred something like a message telling
me that I had forgotten to insert some required elements instead of force
feeding my document with <calloutlist>.

Regards,
Piet.


-----Original Message-----
From: Piet Seiden [mailto:ps@db.dk]
Sent: 25. oktober 2001 22:57
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook?


I'm starting out with XML, trying to convert existing documents using the
DocBook XML DTD (4.1.2). As editor I have tried using XML Spy 4.0 but have
not been able to validate anything, not even simple sample documents. Before
this drives me insane, I would like to inquire here, if there is a
validating XML parser known to work well with the DocBook XML DTD. The
platform should be either Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD or Linux.
Thanks in advance
Piet.


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