Re: [docbook-apps] using local catalog in platform independent way

[Gisbert Amm <gia@webde-ag.de>]

Jason Novotny wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I'm using Docbook finally with some success after lots and lots of 
> work ;-)
> 
> My software which is Java based includes the docbook and docbook-xsl 
> tarballs and I want to use the DTD locally so my Ant tasks can create 
> HTML from docbook using the style task without requiring network access.
> 
> I have the following in my file:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3CR1//EN"
>  "../common/docbook-xml-4.3CR1/docbookx.dtd" [
> 
> So I've determined this will work under Unix, but I don't think it works 
> on Windows-- can anyone recommend some approach that will work for both 
> operating systems?

You should use XML catalogs instead of hardwire the filesystem path into 
your sources. See http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Catalogs.html on 
how it works.

Regards,
Gisbert Amm