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RE: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free
- From: David Cramer <dcramer at motive dot com>
- To: ed dot nixon at lynnparkplace dot org
- Cc: rodrigo reyes <rodrigor at in-fusio dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:30:47 -0600
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free
Moving over to docbook-apps as Jirka suggested.
I got that same dialog about not finding an .sps but was able to get it
to use the sps they ship by clicking "OK" at the dialog you mentioned
and navigating to "C:\Program
Files\Altova\AUTHENTIC\sps\Template\Publishing\DocBook.sps" (the .sps
file is xml, btw; don't know if it's documented well enough to let you
design it without their tool tho). From then on, it associates that
doctype with that sps by default. I believe the "stylesheet application"
is one of the full featured versions of xmlspy, along the adobe acrobat
model: free viewer, you pay for the full-featured tool. I can envision a
case where one specialist carefully designs a .sps and many content
providers use Authentic to shield them from the tags to some degree and
validate their contribution. I suspect there's a fair amount of work to
do in designing that .sps file tho, and whether it would be appropriate
for docbook will depend very much on what your doing with docbook, how
many people are contributing, what level of knowledge of the content
model the have/need to have, etc.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: ed nixon [mailto:ed dot nixon at lynnparkplace dot org]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:01 PM
To: David Cramer
Cc: rodrigo reyes; Docbook at Lists dot Oasis-Open. Org
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free
David Cramer wrote:
> When the license manager app starts, click the "Purchase" button. It
> will take you to a page where you can "Purchase" Authentic for free
(you
> have to enter an email address). They'll email you a key.
>
> I'm poking around in it now with a small doc. From what I can tell the
> ".sps" file for docbook (a set of instructions that tells Authentic
how
> to present an instance of docbook) isn't written all that well, but
> you'll get the idea--it's a way to create forms/templates for
> non-xml-aware content providers. Does anybody have/know of a better
> DocBook.sps than the one provided?
I've customized my sdocbook DTD, therefore I can't open any of my files
in this product. A message window comes up stating that there is no .sps
file for my document, that the license does not allow source view of
instances and that I should go to the "stylesheet" application and
create a new .sps file for my file. I have been unable to find the
stylesheet application, either on disk in the installation or as a menu
option in Authentic itself. If I am right, there is certainly something
authentic about the free-ness of this product but it's not in the name
or the functionality.
...edN