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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free
Moving over to docbook-apps as Jirka suggested. I got that same dialog about not finding an .sps but was able to get it to use the sps they ship by clicking "OK" at the dialog you mentioned and navigating to "C:\Program Files\Altova\AUTHENTIC\sps\Template\Publishing\DocBook.sps" (the .sps file is xml, btw; don't know if it's documented well enough to let you design it without their tool tho). From then on, it associates that doctype with that sps by default. I believe the "stylesheet application" is one of the full featured versions of xmlspy, along the adobe acrobat model: free viewer, you pay for the full-featured tool. I can envision a case where one specialist carefully designs a .sps and many content providers use Authentic to shield them from the tags to some degree and validate their contribution. I suspect there's a fair amount of work to do in designing that .sps file tho, and whether it would be appropriate for docbook will depend very much on what your doing with docbook, how many people are contributing, what level of knowledge of the content model the have/need to have, etc. David -----Original Message----- From: ed nixon [mailto:ed.nixon@lynnparkplace.org] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:01 PM To: David Cramer Cc: rodrigo reyes; Docbook@Lists. Oasis-Open. Org Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free David Cramer wrote: > When the license manager app starts, click the "Purchase" button. It > will take you to a page where you can "Purchase" Authentic for free (you > have to enter an email address). They'll email you a key. > > I'm poking around in it now with a small doc. From what I can tell the > ".sps" file for docbook (a set of instructions that tells Authentic how > to present an instance of docbook) isn't written all that well, but > you'll get the idea--it's a way to create forms/templates for > non-xml-aware content providers. Does anybody have/know of a better > DocBook.sps than the one provided? I've customized my sdocbook DTD, therefore I can't open any of my files in this product. A message window comes up stating that there is no .sps file for my document, that the license does not allow source view of instances and that I should go to the "stylesheet" application and create a new .sps file for my file. I have been unable to find the stylesheet application, either on disk in the installation or as a menu option in Authentic itself. If I am right, there is certainly something authentic about the free-ness of this product but it's not in the name or the functionality. ...edN
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