DocBook XML documents and OpenJade 1.3.1

[Jacky]

On Windows 2000, with OpenJade 1.3.1, and the DocBook sgml/XML DTD 4.2 from sourceforge.

I can use OpenJade 1.3.1 to generate an rtf document from a DocBook sgml document. But it failed from a DocBook XML document.

onsgmls works for both sgml and XML documents. Hence, I think maybe I set up wrong SGML_CATALOG_FILES.

Please show me your SGML_CATALOG_FILES, and other environment variables, and the command to run OpenJade, if you can solve this problem.

 

[Keith Davies]

On Windows 2000, with OpenJade 1.3.1, and the DocBook sgml/XML DTD 4.2 from sourceforge.

I can use OpenJade 1.3.1 to generate an rtf document from a DocBook sgml document. But it failed from a DocBook XML document.

onsgmls works for both sgml and XML documents. Hence, I think maybe I set up wrong SGML_CATALOG_FILES.

Please show me your SGML_CATALOG_FILES, and other environment variables, and the command to run OpenJade, if you can solve this problem.

You don't provide the actual error messages, so this is a bit of guesswork, but this is a common problem.

(Open)Jade's default SGML declaration allows and expects certain formatting rules that are not allowed in XML. You have to apply a declaration that will cause it to accept only well-formed XML.

Look for a file called 'xml.dcl' in your SGMLHOME. Add it to the invocation of openjade. I've got a Makefile with an instruction:

jade $(WARN) $(RTF) -o $*.html $(DCL) $*.xml

where $(WARN) contains any warning flags I want turned on or off, $(RTF) provides RTF-specific arguments (the DSSSL file to use) and $(DCL) contains the fully-qualified path to xml.dcl (/usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl, in my case).

So, do something like:

d:> openjade -d dbk2html.dsl -t rtf-95 /usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl doc.xml

making replacements as appropriate, and you should end up with an RTF file 'doc.rtf'.

Keith

 

[Saqib Ali]

Please show me your SGML_CATALOG_FILES, and other environment variables,

and the command to run OpenJade, if you can solve this problem.

export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/local/dbtools/openjade/dsssl/catalog:/usr/local/dbtools/dtd4.1.2/docbook.cat:/usr/local/dbtools/docbook-dsssl/catalog

In Peace,
Saqib Ali
http://validate.sf.net Online DocBook XML Validator and Transformer