DOCBOOK: AW: WebSphere Application Developer and DocBook XML

[Matthias Krehl <matthias dot krehl at key-work dot de>]

Hi!

Unfortunately

    sdocbook.dtd

runs into the same problem.

Anyone from IBM here around to read this?
;-)

bye Matthias


Matthias Krehl
matthias.krehl@key-work.de


> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@mercury.sun.com]Im Auftrag von Norman
> Walsh
> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Januar 2002 15:54
> An: Matthias Krehl
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Betreff: Re: WebSphere Application Developer and DocBook XML
>
>
> [Followups to docbook-apps, please]
>
> / Matthias Krehl <matthias.krehl@key-work.de> was heard to say:
> | Has anyone used IBM's WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD) for editing
> | DocBook documents?
> |
> | I didn't manage to create a DocBook XML so far. After
> specifying the DocBook
> | DTD in the XML file creation wizard WSAD (thinks for several seconds and
> | then) requests for selecting a root element from a drop down
> list - which is
> | empty. Manually inserting something like 'book', or '<book>' will be
> | ignored.
> |
> | That's the explanation from the WSAD online help:
> |
> |     The root element of an XML file is
> |     the element that contains all other
> |     elements in that file. All elements
> |     defined in the DTD or all global
> |     elements defined in the XML schema
> |     are included in this list.
> |     Note: If you do not have any elements
> |     in your DTD or any global elements in
> |     your XML schema, you cannot create an
> |     XML file from it.
> |
> | Any ideas?
>
> Maybe WSAD isn't robust enough to parse DocBook? Have you tried
> with a smaller,
> simpler DTD? Perhaps Simplified DocBook?
>
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>                                           norm
>
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