[CLUE-Tech] help with XML

[Brandon N]

I'll email a sample document and all the other information in a few
days, I'm still experimenting with XML Editors, and I'd rather send one
from the editor I decide to use.

Brandon
--- Matt Gushee <mgushee at hypermall.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2002 18:20, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Brandon N wrote:
> 
> > > I've been writting documentation in SGML for a while now, and I'm
> > > trying to move it to XML because I can't find any good SGML
> editors.
> > > As of yet I haven't been able to get anything to compile to HTML.
>  I'm
> > > pretty sure I have everything installed correctly, I'm running
> Debian.
> 
> I'm not sure that logically follows. I also use and love Debian, but
> Jade is 
> about as close to rocket science as text processing programs get. And
> 
> sgmltools being a hack on top of Jade -- a *good* hack, but a hack 
> nonetheless, well ... it doesn't take much to make the whole thing
> blow up.
> 
> > > Do you have any pointers on what I need in the header of the
> document,
> > > and what the command line should be?  I've tried it using
> sgmltools,
> > > and jade directly with no luck yet.
> 
> One problem I've run into when processing XML is that Jade (well,
> actually 
> the parser, nsgmls) needs to be able to find an XMLish SGML
> declaration. Said 
> declaration must either have a catalog entry (which it doesn't by
> default 
> AFAIK) or be specified on the command line. I'm not sure if I have
> the docs 
> one that -- I haven't used jade in a couple of years -- but I could
> probably 
> find the info without much trouble if you need it.
> 
> > Can you send me the file you're trying to convert to HTML?
> 
> > Also, what version of Debian are you using, what version of
> sgmltools,
> > DocBook, etc? Any errors that you're getting should be helpful as
> > well.
> 
> Your environment variables could be relevant, too. Especially
> anything 
> starting with 'SP'.
> 
> > Anyway, send it my way and I'll take a look. It'll be good for
> > me, I haven't been doing much with DocBook for a while...
> 
> I'd also be happy to check it out if that would be helpful.
> 
> --
> Matt Gushee
> Englewood, CO  USA
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