Re: Schematron questions

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On 21/05/18 04:00, N. Raghavendra wrote:
> At 2018-05-20T22:32:52+01:00, Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
>> I haven't used LaTeX for authoring since the early 90s: everything has
>> been in SGML and then XML, and transformed to LaTeX for formatting, so
>> its lack of formal structure has not concerned me: it's basically an API
>> to create PDFs.
> 
> I indeed like the phrase "an API to create PDFs"!  I wish I knew, in the
> 90s, someone who could tell me that.

I was certainly saying it, but obviously not loud enough.

> Now, to use PSGML, I have to convert the RNC to a DTD.  However, when I
> try to do that with `trang', the command aborts with several errors:
> 
> $ trang mono.rnc mono.dtd
> 
> /home/raghu/xml/xml/mono.rnc:14:1: error: sorry, combining definitions
> with combine="choice" is not supported
> 
> /pkg/docbook/rng/docbookxi.rnc:264:6: error: sorry, ambiguous attribute
> choice not handled (attribute "type" from namespace
> "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink")

I'm not an Relax expert. I suspect you just need to avoid using
constructs that do not map to DTD's facilities. This may mean expanding
any combined definitions, for example.

> I have enclosed the schema `mono.rnc' below.  I would be grateful if you
> have any suggestions.

I'm afraid I won't now get a chance to look at this until October.

///Peter

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