Re: [generguide-devel] DocBook XML editor

[Sean W. <se...@ya...>]

--- Artur Hefczyc <ko...@pl...> wrote:
> http://www.conglomerate.org/
> 
> I didn't try it yet but screenshots look promising.
> This is Linux only application but still might be
> interesting.
> 

I have it installed and tested. It does not satisfy
generguide requirements at present.

One example is that gener documents have entities to
the External DTD Subset. When conge opens the file it
leaves this reference in and copies all entities in
the external file to the External DTD Subset.

XInclude is also problematic.

The only half decent free/semi-free WYSIWYM tools are 
XXE and Morphon. However, both require generguide to
observe rules that deviate from what we have now.

The main problems are in areas:
Entities and XInlcude
If we make a rule that nested Entities are not
permitted, then both these applications will work. For
xi:include the DTD must be customized as we have
alreay done. XXE handles xi:include very well under
the circumstances. Morphon, does not display them
inline, but they are represented in the tree.

Another tool I am testing is Serna
(http://www.syntext.com). It is still at beta 2, it's
not free, but it is x-platform. There are problems,
but I think that these will be solved as the app
matures. I have tested gener with this app and found a
few bugs in the program. these were submitted to
serna-betatesters and logged for fixing in next
release.

There is a long list of other document orientated
validating tools that I have tested. But not one meets
the requirements. So for productivities sake, I revert
to oxygen and emacs. Sorry.

I noticed that we never use olink element in gener. Is
there a reason? Some of our problems can be solved
with olink.

Sean Wheller


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