Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:58:33 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nclayton@lehman.com> To: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net>, Nick Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: bsd-doc <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WP8-SGML Update-Comment Message-ID: <19990721105833.Y2353@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <379001CD.853CD365@charm.net>; from Dutch Collins on Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 12:08:45AM -0400 References: <379001CD.853CD365@charm.net>
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Dutch, On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 12:08:45AM -0400, Dutch Collins wrote: > 1) Your document, Handbook DTD Migration, loaded with no errors. > Saved to disk with the following validation error messages, and > variations of it. > Marked Section "<![" treated as data rather than markup > Marked Section "]]>" treated as data rather than markup > > Is this construct defined in the FreeBSD extensions? I'll > look but I am not sure I will get the right answer. > <![ CDATA [<para></para>]]> That's a bug in WP. Marked sections are not a FreeBSD extension, they're a valid part of the SGML spec. > 2) When saving my test document WP8 allows all WP supported formats > to be used. The .sgml format, when selected, causes validation to > start. This is not a problem because, 'save with errors', is an > option. Now the good news - saving to a .html from .sgml source > produces the correct HTML. So far. Saving what SGML produces valid HTML source? I don't follow you here. Do you mean that you can load a DocBook doc in to WP and have it save it as an HTML file? > 3) Elements are tested for validity as they are entered and any > legal attributes are always displayed if desired. A nice > interpreter, lots of error checking. If a user does not know > anything about what elements belong where the element list helps > by only offering legal elements. That makes sense to me. Nice touch. I'm getting an additional machine shortly, and might try WP8 on that -- Emacs does a lot of hand holding as well. Thanks for your work so far. N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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