Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Namespace and DocBook XML

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 8:16 AM +0100 11/8/01, Jens Stavnstrup wrote:
>1. Does the exists an official DocBook XML namespace URI (I havn'r been
>    able to find one)
>

No, there is not. Docbook predates namespaces.

>2. I have developed tiny XML language, that is basicly a heiracical
>database. The content model of all the lower level elements are stricty
>DocBook XML (i.e para, itemizedlist, etc.)
>
>In another DocBook document, I have embedded PIs, that refer to
>nodes in my database. Applying a special XSLT stylesheet, have the effect
>of merging my DocBook document with the database, and thus procducing a
>new DocBook documet.
>
>I am able to validate both the original document and the resulting
>document as beeing DocBook compliant.
>
>My question is : how do I validate my database (is it at all possible
>with DTDs) ?

Write a DTD for your database document, add a DOCTYPE declaration 
pointing to that DTD, and validate it as you would a Docbook or any 
other document.

>How should my DTD look like ?
>

This depends on what your document looks like.
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