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Subject: Re: [docbook] Using multiple modules
Hi Nikolai On Sun 2004-02-08 Nikolai Weibull wrote: > Lets hope DocBook 5.0 or some such will work this way. There's > always the RELAX NG version I suppose, which are a bit more flexible > in this respect (or should be anyway). Also check http://docbook.org/docbook-ng/ > This remark was mostly made after having spent many hours trying to > get various versions of DocBook (SGML and XML) to install and work > properly. Both with the whole catalog business that wasn't really > solved in a standard and clean way until recently it seems Standardizing the file locations for a certain OS may help in some scenarios, but is not absolutely necessary in general. The OASIS XML Catalog language is standardized; create one and make it visible to your tools (eg via $XML_CATALOG_FILES), should work great. In case it helps, here's how I do it: http://www.pinkjuice.com/howto/vimxml/setup.xml#catalogs > and due to bugs in many of the wrapper utilities. I recommend using the tools directly, eg from batch or shell scripts. Then you are less dependent on wrapper utilities. > sgmltools-lite has this one bug that makes all catalog lookups fail > and since it doesn't seem to be under development anymore it > probably won't get fixed (I've fixed it myself after rediscovering > it several times after reinstalls of my system). DocBook is a language, but here you're talking about tools. (BTW I recommend to use DocBook XML and not SGML) > Also, a lot of problems with passivetex, xmltex, and xmlto on my > current distribution has really limited my use of DocBook. I suggest to send such feedback to the developers of the tools with which you experienced problems. > Anyway, that has finally been fixed and now that the FHS has made > SGML and XML catalog and DTD locations standard everything should > probably work a lot smoother. Until then (and after that too) you can always set up your own system in any way you like. Tobi -- Vim users, don't forget to http://iccf-holland.org/donate.html
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