Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Namespace and DocBook XML

[Jens Stavnstrup <js@ddre.dk>]

Ok, maybee I wasn't quite clear.

Let us aasume that the element "myelement" may contain #PCDATA and/or
DocBook markup. I know, I can't inherit the DocBook DTD, and I have no
intension of copying the wholeDocBook DTD into my DTD.

What I basicly wan't to to is:

Define myelement to contain #PCDATA. And then basically ignore the
content of that element.  I was thinking, that mybee I could use
namespaces to solve it, something like

   <?xml version="1.0">
   <db:myroot xmlns:db="http://mynamespace">
     <db:myelement>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem><para>item 1</para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>item 2</para></listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
       <para>Some text</para>
     </db:myelement>
   </db:myroot>

But, I havn't yet figured exactly how to do it, if it is possible at all ?


Jens
   

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> >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.