Re: [docbook] DocBook HTML Forms

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

"John L. Clark" <jlc6@po.cwru.edu> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:11:53PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> > > You need to validate your doc using the "dbforms.rng" schema
> > > instead of the "docbook.rng" schema.
> > >
> > >   http://www.docbook.org/docbook-ng/pto/dbforms.rng
> > 
> > This does not work either - I get exactly the same errors!
> 
> Yeah, if you pull down copies of both the forms version and the
> original, it turns out that they are the same file.  It would appear
> that the forms extension hasn't been implemented yet.

There are source files in CVS for the HTML forms extension (RELAX
NG compact syntax ones -- htmlform.rnc for the actual forms
content, along with a dbforms.rnc driver), but there appears to be
a build error that is causing the full/flattened .rnc/.rng/.dtd
files to not be built from that source correctly.

I'm sure it'll be resolved for the next DocBook 5 beta release.
In the mean time, I guess the workaround is to use the DocBook +
HTML forms grammar in the Lillet release, or to take the source
dbforms.rnc from CVS and build a .rng file from it manually.

  --Mike

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