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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook XML and XMLspy
Bernd Kreimeier <bk@oddworld.com> writes: > I am looking for a Win32 solution for structured/guided editing > of DocBook XML which is a bit closer to the standard Windows way > of things than Emacs/PSGML. XMLspy seems to be a good choice > (other suggestions?). Same ones Jirka mentioned: epcEdit, Morphon, XMetaL, Arbortext Epic. The first three all have downloadble eval versions. And if you contact Arbortext and get in touch with one of their sales reps, I think they'll mail you an eval version of Epic. > If anybody has experience in using XMLspy to edit DocBook XML > documents using either the DTD or the Schema, I'd appreciate > comments. I found a few mentions of problems/bugs in mailing list > archives, but not many, which could either indicate it's a > combination that works well, or indicate it is seldomly used. I think it's the latter: seldomly used for working with DocBook -- maybe for the reason Jirka mentioned (it's sort of unwieldy for document-authoring work) but also maybe because it just doesn't work well with the DocBook DTD. What I mean is, in my experience at least, XML Spy reports validation errors in the DTD (and in customizations to it) that aren't actually errors. I was working today with a document that I had validated with nsgmls, xmllint, and Xerces against the DocBook 4.1.2 DTD + EBNF module. I tried to open it in XML Spy and XML Spy reported errors in the DTD and so wouldn't let me work with the doc. -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japan http://sideshowbarker.net Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. --William Hazlitt
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