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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free
Good thoughts, David. Thanks. And for the tip about "finding" the .sps file. Perhaps I'll reinstall and take another look, although I would have appreciated a little more "upfrontness" about what was actually forthcoming for free. rgrds ...edN David Cramer wrote: > Moving over to docbook-apps as Jirka suggested. > > I got that same dialog about not finding an .sps but was able to get it > to use the sps they ship by clicking "OK" at the dialog you mentioned > and navigating to "C:\Program > Files\Altova\AUTHENTIC\sps\Template\Publishing\DocBook.sps" (the .sps > file is xml, btw; don't know if it's documented well enough to let you > design it without their tool tho). From then on, it associates that > doctype with that sps by default. I believe the "stylesheet application" > is one of the full featured versions of xmlspy, along the adobe acrobat > model: free viewer, you pay for the full-featured tool. I can envision a > case where one specialist carefully designs a .sps and many content > providers use Authentic to shield them from the tags to some degree and > validate their contribution. I suspect there's a fair amount of work to > do in designing that .sps file tho, and whether it would be appropriate > for docbook will depend very much on what your doing with docbook, how > many people are contributing, what level of knowledge of the content > model the have/need to have, etc. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: ed nixon [mailto:ed.nixon@lynnparkplace.org] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:01 PM > To: David Cramer > Cc: rodrigo reyes; Docbook@Lists. Oasis-Open. Org > Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free > > David Cramer wrote: > >>When the license manager app starts, click the "Purchase" button. It >>will take you to a page where you can "Purchase" Authentic for free > > (you > >>have to enter an email address). They'll email you a key. >> >>I'm poking around in it now with a small doc. From what I can tell the >>".sps" file for docbook (a set of instructions that tells Authentic > > how > >>to present an instance of docbook) isn't written all that well, but >>you'll get the idea--it's a way to create forms/templates for >>non-xml-aware content providers. Does anybody have/know of a better >>DocBook.sps than the one provided? > > > I've customized my sdocbook DTD, therefore I can't open any of my files > in this product. A message window comes up stating that there is no .sps > > file for my document, that the license does not allow source view of > instances and that I should go to the "stylesheet" application and > create a new .sps file for my file. I have been unable to find the > stylesheet application, either on disk in the installation or as a menu > option in Authentic itself. If I am right, there is certainly something > authentic about the free-ness of this product but it's not in the name > or the functionality. > > ...edN > > > >
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