missing public docbook-website DTD

Thank you!!! So, these DTD/schema stuff is a mystery to me.
I got the
impression that these types of paths don't change. Was this
an oversite? Did
I have you do something you didn't want to restore? Is
there a better path
to use?

LN

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael(tm) Smith [mailto:smithsideshowbarker.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:01 PM
> To: docbooklists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook] missing public docbook-website
DTD
> 
> 
> Webmaster <Webmastercomtrol.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm using 2.6.0 of docbook website/1.6.9 of
docbook, in 
> which the files are
> > referring to:
> > 
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/website/2.5
.0/schema/dt
> d/autolayout.dtd
> 
> It's been restored now.
> 
>   --Mike
> 

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Webmaster wrote:
> Thank you!!! So, these DTD/schema stuff is a mystery to
me. I got the
> impression that these types of paths don't change. Was
this an oversite? Did
> I have you do something you didn't want to restore? Is
there a better path
> to use?
> 
> LN

The best approach here, if the application and platform
you're using 
supports it, is to use a catalog resolver; a catalog
resolver is 
software that plugs into your XML processor to re-map
references to 
external entities (such as DTDs) to URIs that you can
control (usually, 
to your local filesystem or a web server on your local
network).  Of 
course, for this to work, you'll still need to find a copy
of the DTD 
(and any files it references).

See, for example:


http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/WriteCatalog.html

HTH,

AC


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Webmaster <Webmastercomtrol.com> writes:

> Thank you!!! So, these DTD/schema stuff is a mystery to
me. I got the
> impression that these types of paths don't change. Was
this an oversite? Did
> I have you do something you didn't want to restore? Is
there a better path
> to use?

It was a mistake for me to have deleted the directory.

That said, it's not reliable to use a system that retrieves
the
DTD remotely every time you need it. Especially in the case
of
retrieving it from the Sourceforge webserver -- because that
(along with other SF services) is known to become
unavailable,
without warning, for hours (or sometimes even days) at a
time.

The better path is to consider doing what Adam suggested and
get
an XML catalog setup working on your system. And to consider
using
an operating system and OS distribution with DocBook
packages
package-management system that installs all the necessary
stuff in
all the right places so that you don't need to worry about
it.
FreeBSD and Mac OS X and any decent Linux distribution all
have
package-management systems like that available.

You can install the Cygwin system on Windows to get
something
similar (though I don't know if docbook-website is packaged
for it).

  --Mike