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RE: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook ?SOLVED
- To: "Seiden, Piet" <ps at db dot dk>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook ?SOLVED
- From: "Seiden, Piet" <ps at db dot dk>
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 09:27:45 +0100
- List-Id: <docbook-apps.lists.oasis-open.org>
Thanks for all the feedback to my orig post.
It turned out that XML Spy is fine, but overly helpful, which threw me for a
loop. What happened was that being the newbie that I am, I had created a
document with <chapter> and <title> elements but without any content like
<para> in those chapters. I used XML Spy in the Enhanced Grid View and it
automatically inserts a <calloutlist> with an accompanying <callout> when I
created a <chapter> element.
As I decided to save my document at that stage I got an error message
regarding the validity of my documents as I had not specified anything for
the arearefs attribute. Imagine the Newbies surprise at this stage
(arearefs, where did that one come from?) of the process.
XML Spy is nice, but I would have preferred something like a message telling
me that I had forgotten to insert some required elements instead of force
feeding my document with <calloutlist>.
Regards,
Piet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Piet Seiden [mailto:ps@db.dk]
Sent: 25. oktober 2001 22:57
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie: Which validating parser for XML DocBook?
I'm starting out with XML, trying to convert existing documents using the
DocBook XML DTD (4.1.2). As editor I have tried using XML Spy 4.0 but have
not been able to validate anything, not even simple sample documents. Before
this drives me insane, I would like to inquire here, if there is a
validating XML parser known to work well with the DocBook XML DTD. The
platform should be either Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD or Linux.
Thanks in advance
Piet.
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