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Re: Indirection
- From: Ismael Olea <ismael dot olea at hispalinux dot es>
- To: Alan Westhagen <afw at u dot washington dot edu>
- Cc: docbook-tools-discuss <docbook-tools-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:31:17 +0200
- Subject: Re: Indirection
- References: <42811E15.5000604@u.washington.edu>
El mar, 10-05-2005 a las 13:48 -0700, Alan Westhagen escribiÃ:
This seems to be an XML/SGML incompatibility I've never had time to
study.
For me the alternative was using the XML tool-chain. I'm in love with
xmlto :-D
> I have a lot of documents written in docbook xml which, up until
> recently, worked fine with docbook-tools.
>
> A typical header looks like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "=//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
> [
> ]>
>
> I can no longer process the documents with docbook-tools. I believe
> the element that has changed is the dtd located at oasis-open.org.
>
> Since I have no power to correct what is installed at
> oasis-open.org, I would like to use local files, but with indirection,
> so that I do not have to change all the documents each time I
> upgrade my system.
>
> I tried to use a symbolic link as the system identifier. Emacs was
> happy with that, but docbook-tools broke.
>
> I tried putting OVERRIDE YES in the catalog file, but the tools
> still insist on being able to open the file referenced by the
> system identifier.
>
> Does anyone have a simple way of setting up indirection, catalog
> based or otherwise, for docbook tools? My setup is standard
> RedHat Enterprise Linux.
>
> Best regards,
> Alan