RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using DocBook 4.1 with FrameMaker+SGML 6.x

[Karl Best <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

The DocBook application that ships with FM+SGML is just a sample; it's
neither current (like you say, it's v2.x) nor complete. Rather than
attempting to update it you should just build your own application from
scratch by importing whatever *SGML* DTD that you want to use.

</karl>
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lossner, Kevin [mailto:KLossner@easy.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:20 AM
> To: 'karl.best@oasis-open.org'; 'DocBook List'
> Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using DocBook 4.1 with FrameMaker+SGML 6.x
>
>
>
> I'm aware that FM+SGML can't import XML; what I am after (now,
> after messing
> around with options most of the day) is a way to update the version of the
> DocBook SGML DTD used by the program. It seems that many of the tags I am
> accustomed to using are not supported in the old DTD, which I
> think is a 2.x
> version. All the references in the manuals to "consult your application
> developer" for many of my questions are enough to drive one crazy,
> especially if one is in the unfortunate position of being the application
> developer. I could try to make something up from scratch, but I have grown
> rather fond of DocBook 4.x.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karl Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:19 PM
> > To: Lossner, Kevin; 'DocBook List'
> > Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using DocBook 4.1 with FrameMaker+SGML 6.x
> >
> >
> > FM+SGML cannot import XML; it only imports SGML. The current
> > version has an
> > XML export feature (well-formed only), but no import. The
> > parser is the
> > several-years-old sgmls, and replacing that parser with a
> > newer version that
> > handles XML would require more effort than Adobe is willing
> > to do for that
> > product.
> >
> > </karl>
> > ============================================================
> > Karl F. Best
> > OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
> > 978.667.5115 x206
> > karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org
> >
>