RE: [docbook] DTD for DocBook?

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cramer [mailto:david@thingbag.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2011 December 14 22:45
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook] DTD for DocBook?
> 
> On 12/14/2011 10:53 AM, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > Getting a reasonable XSD for DocBook V5.x is a step closer to a
> > DTD, but it's not a DTD. Does anyone care?
> >
> 
> I doubt it. The use case for alternative schemas is in-editor
> validation, right? AFAIK, all the editors that don't support RelaxNG
> do support XSD:
> 
> oXygen: RelaxNG, XSD, DTD
> XMLMind: RelaxNG, XSD, DTD
> emacs+nxml: RelaxNG
> XMetaL: XSD, DTD
> Serna: XSD
> Epic: ????
> 

PTC's Arbortext (aka Epic) does support XSD.  It also supports
Schematron validation--though not RelaxNG currently--so one
can use a combination of XSD plus Schematron rules to validate
ones DocBook content.

paul